I don't suppose you know him well enough to ask him not to sell The Rigs?
It can't make much difference to him, though it means so much to us.

Is he old, our landlord ?" "A man in his prime," said Peter Reid.
"That's pretty old, isn't it ?" said Jean--"about sixty, I think.

Of course," hastily, "sixty isn't really old.

When I'm sixty--if I'm spared--I expect I shall feel myself good for another twenty years." "I thought I was," said Peter Reid, "until I broke down." "Oh, but a rest at Priorsford will put you all right." Could he afford a holiday?
she wondered.

Even temperance hotels were rather expensive when you hadn't much money.