No party claims me.

I haven't even a seat in the House of Commons.

I am nearly fifty years old and I am tired." "Nearly fifty years old!" she repeated.

"But what is that?
You have--health, you are strong and well, there is nothing a younger man can do that you cannot.

Why do you worry about your age ?" "Perhaps," he admitted, with a faint smile, and an innate compulsion to tell her of the thought which had lurked behind, "because you are so marvelously young." "Absurd!" she scoffed.