31/39 "I am very sorry, but I really thought you were forty at least." "I look it, no doubt. Let me be equally candid and admit that you, too, show your age markedly." She smiled nervously. "What a lot of trouble you must have had to--to--to give you those little wrinkles in the corners of your mouth and eyes," she said. I think they rather suit you; besides, it was stupid of me to imagine you were so old. I suppose exposure to the sun creates wrinkles, and you must have lived much in the open air." "Early rising and late going to bed are bad for the complexion," he declared, solemnly. |