63/306 "By that time we have accumulated enough past to sit down and really enjoy its associations. We know where we are at." "I don't mind being elderly. The world's just as amusing as ever, and lots of disagreeable things have dropped out. It's the getting more than elderly; it's the getting old; and then--" They shrank a little closer together, and walked on in silence till he said, "Perhaps there's something else, something better--somewhere." They had reached the balustraded terrace, and were pausing for pleasure in the garden tops below, with the flowery spaces, and the statued fountains all coming together. She put her hand on one of the fat little urchin-groups on the stone coping. |