He uttered a sound of protest only when she went to declare that she ought as a daughter, in common decency, to have waited.
Yet by that time she was already herself admitting that she should have had to wait long--if she waited, that is, till he was old.

But there was a way.

"Since you ARE an irresistible youth, we've got to face it.

That, somehow, is what that woman has made me feel.

There'll be others." X To talk of it thus appeared at last a positive relief to him.