I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
“Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.”
“It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.”