"We have brought his wife here in her coffin."
CHAPTER XXXII
WHEN WE HAD GROWN OLD
Seventeen years have passed since Lorand returned home again.
What old people we have become since then!
Besides, seventeen years is a long time:—and seventeen heavy years!
I have rarely seen people grow old so slowly as did our contemporaries.
We live in a time when we sigh with relief as each day passes by—only because it is now over! And we will not believe that what comes after it will bring still worse days.