"She's been healthy as a woman can be, living this life here.

What's her disease?
I've asked you.

What is it ?" The other laid a hand on himself, and in the colourless voice of the expert, said: "Old age--that's her trouble, so far as I can see." He paused, foreseeing the ferocious look which swept into the repulsive face, and the clenching of the big hands.

Then in a soothing, reflective kind of voice he added: "Senile decay--you know all about that.

Well, now, it happens sometimes--not often, but it does happen--that a very young person for some cause or another suffers from senile decay.