"But then Sir Beverley is rather old, isn't he?
No doubt it's the comparison that does it." "He isn't old," said Piers Evesham in sharp contradiction.

"He's only seventy-four.

That's not old for an Evesham.

He'll go for another twenty years.

There's a saying in our family that if we don't die violently, we never die at all." He pulled himself up abruptly.