I said I was thirty, and looked thirty-five, and felt forty.

I also said he might be twenty-seven, but he looked nineteen, and I was sure he often felt nine." "Well ?" "Then I said that I could not marry a mere boy." "And he acquiesced ?" "He seemed stunned at first.

Then he said of course I could not marry him if I considered him that.

He said it was the first time he had given a thought to himself in the matter.

Then he said he bowed to my decision, and he walked down the church and went out, and we have not met since." "Jane," said the doctor, "I wonder he did not see through it.