I whistled.
"Phew! I shall be a doddering old man myself by then."
"Nonsense! You'll avoid that by adopting my methods. Only you'll start earlier in life."
"Never! When my glands give out—I shall!"
"The same sort of argument used to be brought forward about vaccination—the 'Let-Nature-take-its-own-course' cry. . . . Even to-day there are anti-vaccination cranks."
"That's different. Vaccination is a safeguard against disease."
"Quite so. And this is a safeguard against something much worse than disease. It's an antidote to Death."
I could again feel the inclination to argue surging up in me, but I remembered my dignity and desisted.
"I wish you would tell me about this other 'pioneer' stunt of yours," I said, as we emerged into the sunlit courtyard.
"In the fulness of time."