"Yes, yes, sixty! Oh, child, are you really sixty? I thought you were forty or fifty at most ... I was dreaming.... The old man was dreaming.... Sixty!... More than sixty years ago!..."
His voice mumbled; she did not understand what he meant:
"Were you a little confused?"
"When?" he asked, with a start.
"Just now."
"Just now?..."
"When you thought ... that I was forty."
"What do you say?"
"When you thought that I was forty."
"Yes, yes ... I hear what you say.... I can still hear very well.... I have always heard very well ... too well ... too well ..."