And almost at once he did, looking particularly young and alive; so that, as he jumped in beside her on the back seat, both her hands went out and caught his arm and clung to him.
Her realization of mortality had been so acute that she felt as if he had been restored to her from the dead.

She told him the horrors of the day.
Particularly, she wanted to share with him her gratitude for her mother's almost magic kindness.
"I wanted you so much, Pete," she whispered; "but I thought it would be heartless even to suggest my having wishes at such a time.

And then for her to think of it herself--" "It means they are not really going to oppose our marriage." They talked about their marriage and the twenty or thirty years of joy which they might reasonably hope to snatch from life.
"Think of it," he said--"twenty or thirty years, longer than either of us have lived." "If I could have five years, even one year, with you, I think I could bear to die; but not now, Pete." In the meantime Mr.Lanley, alone on the front seat, for he had left his chauffeur at home, was driving north along the Hudson and saying to himself: "Sixty-four.

Well, I may be able to knock out ten or twelve pretty satisfactory years.

On the other hand, might die to-morrow; hope I don't, though.