“You want to know too much,” she answered, without raising her eyes. “Some day I shall make you acquainted with one another, and then you can ask him.”
“All right, then; I will. I suppose Mrs. Leach is going abroad with you?”
“Oh dear, no!” she replied, with unusual emphasis.
“Then she is not living here altogether?”
“Oh no! What an absurd idea!”
“She is a handsome woman for her age, although she will never see fifty again.”
“I think she will.”
“You mean that she will live to a hundred?”
“No. I mean that she is not more than thirty.”
“I should be sorry to be hanging since she was fifty!”