George said he himself intended to commit suicide at sixty.

Young Nicholas, smiling and stroking a long chin, didn't think his father would like that theory; he had made a lot of money since he was sixty.

Well, seventy was the outside limit; it was then time, George said, for them to go and leave their money to their children.

Soames, hitherto silent, here joined in; he had not forgotten the remark about the 'undertaking,' and, lifting his eyelids almost imperceptibly, said it was all very well for people who never made money to talk.

He himself intended to live as long as he could.