It took those twenty years to make me companionable.

Experience is something we must buy; it isn't left in somebody's will.

Let us say that I possess all the necessary attributes save one." "And what is that ?" "Youth, Kitty.

And take the word of a senile old dotard, your young man, when you find him, will lack many of the attributes you require.

On the other hand, there is always the possibility that these will develop as you jog along.