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Then she abandoned to him the joint duty of viewing the cathedral , and hurried to their carriage where she basked in the sun till he came to her . He returned shivering , after a half-hour 's absence , and pretended that she had missed the greatest thing in the world , but as he could never be got to say just what she had lost , and under the closest cross-examination could not prove that this cathedral was memorably different from hundreds of other fourteenth-century cathedrals , she remained in a lasting content with the easier part she had chosen . His only definite impression at the cathedral seemed to be confined to a Bostonian of gloomily correct type , whom he had seen doing it with his Baedeker , and not letting an object of interest escape ; and his account of her fellow-townsman reconciled Mrs. March more and more to not having gone . As it was warmer out-doors than in-doors at Frankfort , and as the breadth of sunshine increased with the approach of noon they gave the rest of the morning to driving about and ignorantly enjoying the outside of many Gothic churches , whose names even they did not trouble themselves to learn . They liked the river Main whenever they came to it , because it was so lately from Wurzburg , and because it was so beautiful with its bridges , old and new , and its boats of many patterns . They liked the market-place in front of the Romer not only because it was full of fascinating bargains in curious crockery and wooden-ware , but because there was scarcely any shade at all in it . They read from their Baedeker that until the end of the last century no Jew was suffered to enter the marketplace , and they rejoiced to find from all appearances that the Jews had been making up for their unjust exclusion ever since .