I cannot believe that Veronica is really inclined to marry me.

It seems to me that she might be my daughter--" "If you had been married at fifteen," suggested Matilde, laughing softly.

"Because you feel tired and harassed to-day, you feel a hundred years old.

It is no compliment to me to say so, for I am even a little older than you, I think.

And you--you are young, you are handsome, you are talented, you have the manners that women love--" "It is not many minutes since you were saying that we were both growing old--" "No, no! I said that we could not always be young.