Eva has tried to reassure Franz, telling him that Mieze is a thoroughly decent girl; if she goes out to walk the streets for him, this should be taken as a token of her love. Franz goes to meet Mieze at her usual corner Jean Paul St. / Moses St. And as he sees her stand ing there by the board fence in full sunlight, so fragile and beautiful, it fills his heart with a warm feeling to know that he is the one for whom she is standing there: suddenly he is aware how much he loves her and how terribly Mieze loves him. From this very moment Franz feels strong enough even to face Reinhold again, who had tried to kill him. Biberkopf takes an interest in politics, too: now that he has no work to do he attends a political meeting which he finds very strange, indeed . "Isn' t it funny ", he muses, "that one can be for a thing and against it at the same time?"