Did you know that ?" But Miss Dawes was indignant.
"Captain Whittaker," she declared, "one would think you were a hundred years old to hear you.

You are always calling yourself an old man.

Does Mr.Atkins call himself old?
And he is older than you." "Well, I'm over fifty, Phoebe." In spite of the habit for which he had just been reproached, the captain found this a difficult statement to make.
"I know.

But you're younger than most of us at thirty-five.

You see, I'm confessing, too," she added with a laugh and a little blush.
Captain Cy made a mental calculation.
"Twenty years," he said musingly.