"I understand my cousins are not much given to entertaining visitors.

I have never, in fact, seen any of them but once before.

That was at Sir Timothy's wedding, twenty years ago." "Barely nineteen," said the doctor.
"I believe it was nineteen, since you remind me," said John, slightly astonished.

"I remember thinking Sir Timothy a lucky man." "I dare say _he_ looked much about the same as he does now," said the doctor.
"Well," John said, "perhaps a little slimmer, you know.

Not much.