Yes, the signs were there.

She was a good-looking woman to-day, a handsome woman in some lights, but she had reached the limit.

It was a matter of a few years at most, and then--He stood with his hands behind his back.
"It is a fear which we must all share," he said, quietly.

"The only antidote is work." "Work!" she repeated, scornfully.

"That is the man's resource.