"But you are young." "Am I ?" he answered, a little sadly.

"I am not feeling it just now.
Besides, there is something wrong about my enthusiasms.

They are becoming altogether too pastoral.

I am rather thinking of taking up the cultivation of roses and of making a terraced garden down to the sea.
Do you know anything about gardening, Lady Jane ?" "Of course I do," she answered, a little impatiently.

"A very excellent hobby it is for women and dreamers and elderly men.