“Ann forgets that she was young once,” protested Mr Torrance.
“No,” she said, “I don’t think I do, but I think this, that you forget you will some day be old. Now, as this is Shrove Tuesday and you will be wanting pancakes I must go make them.”
“Good old Ann,” whispered Mr Torrance.
CHAPTER IX
MR TORRANCE THE CHEERFUL MAN
Mr Torrance openly objected to Ann’s epitaph for David Morgan, preferring his own choice of one from Shelley’s “Mont Blanc”:
“And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea,
If to the human mind’s imaginings
Silence and solitude were vacancy?”