9/22 One is never bored after forty." "And the object ?" "To keep young, of course. There's scope for any amount of ingenuity. Lily Cestigan is seventy-one, you know, and she told me only last week that Mat Harlowe--you know Harlowe, he's rather a nice boy, in the Guards had asked her to run away with him. She's known him three months, and he's seen her at least three times by daylight. She's delighted about it." "And is she going ?" Arranmore asked. |