Although"-- brightening--"Lester Kent was really most awfully nice about it.

He said it didn't matter one bit." "Did he indeed ?" Sara spoke rather grimly.

"And how old is this Lester Kent ?" "How old?
Oh"-- vaguely--"thirty-five--forty, perhaps.

I really don't know.

Somehow he's not the sort of person whose age one thinks about." "Anyway, he's old enough to know better than to be lending you money to play bridge with," commented Sara.