“How do you know that now?”
“I am beginning to feel it now, by degrees. No doubt because I am getting old now.”
“You are not old.”
“I am old.”
“And thinking: are you also beginning to think?”
“No, not yet.”
“But, by the way you speak of yourself, you are quite young!”
“Don’t be angry with that child!” she entreated, turning the conversation. “She is a nice girl, I am very fond of her ... but she sometimes says things....”
“Do you like her?”
“Yes.”