Anyhow, I prefer to lead a complete and, I believe, useful life here, to looking back in later years upon that hotchpotch of lurid sensations, tangled impressions and restless moments that most of them call life." "You display an amazing amount of philosophy for your years," he ventured, after a little hesitation.

"There is one instinct, however, which you seem to ignore." "What is it, please ?" "Shall I call it the gregarious one, the desire for companionship of young people of your own age ?" She shrugged her shoulders.

She had the air of one faintly amused by his diffidence.
"You mean that I ought to be husband hunting," she said.

"I quite admit that a husband would be a very wonderful addition to life.

I have none of the sentiments of the old maid.