Have you ever been there ?" Yes, Mr.Porter had been to Ecuador.

And there was a certain rail-road in India he had helped put through.

India! Now that WAS a place! Had Dad ever been to India?
No, Dad had never been to India, but...

"Good Lord, boy, how old are you, anyway ?" "Thirty-two." "Well, I never would have guessed it.

Would you, Elizabeth ?" This, too, was rather embarrassing, but I managed to say I thought Mr.Porter didn't look a day over twenty-eight.
"It's the life he leads," Dad declared with an air of proprietorship--"out of doors all day long.