"Do you like that?"
"I like it all," said Lois, smiling. And the other woman looked, with a fascinated, uncomprehending air, at the beauty of that smile.
"But why do you walk?"
"O, that's half the fun," cried Lois. "We gain so a whole world of things that other people miss. And the walking itself is delightful."
"I wonder if I could walk?" said Mrs. Caruthers enviously. "How far can you go in a day? You must make very slow progress?"
"Not very. Now I am getting in training, we can do twenty or thirty miles a day with ease."
"Twenty or thirty miles!" Mrs. Caruthers as nearly screamed as politeness would let her do.
"We do it easily, beginning the day early."
"How early? What do you call early?"
"About four or five o'clock."