"But we are not."
"Then suppose you begin?"
"Do you really wish to hear about that—humble person?"
"Very much!"
"Then you must know, in the first place, that she is old, sir, dreadfully old!"
"But," said I, "she really cannot be more than twenty-three—or four at the most."
"She is just twenty-one!" returned Charmian, rather hastily, I thought.
"Quite a child!"
"No, indeed—it is experience that ages one—and by experience she is quite—two hundred!"
"The wonder is that she still lives."