“Why, seventy-two, of course.”
“You can’t mean it!”
“Why can’t I mean it?”
“Because, if you was seventy-two then, you are naturally ninety-nine now.”
“No, but I ain’t. I stay the same age I was when I come.”
“Well,” says I, “come to think, there’s something just here that I want to ask about. Down below, I always had an idea that in heaven we would all be young, and bright, and spry.”
“Well, you can be young if you want to. You’ve only got to wish.”
“Well, then, why didn’t you wish?”
“I did. They all do. You’ll try it, some day, like enough; but you’ll get tired of the change pretty soon.”
“Why?”