Is it worth while ?" Her eyes for a moment clouded over with weariness.
"When one has filled the cup of life to the brim for many years," she said, "what remains that is worth while ?" He bowed.
"You are a young woman," he said.

"You should not yet have learned to speak with such bitterness.

As for me--well, I am old indeed.

In youth and age the affections claim us.

I am approaching my second childhood." She laughed derisively, yet not unkindly.