Is Colonel Fougas deaf to the voice of honor ?" "Are you mocking me?
What! I marry a woman sixty-four years old ?" "You ought to; if not for her sake, at least for your child's." "My child is a pretty big boy.

He's forty-six years old; he has no further need of my care." "He does need your name, though." "I'll adopt him." "The law is opposed to it.

You're not fifty years old, and he's not fifteen years younger than you are; quite the reverse!" "Very well; I'll legitimize him by marrying the young Clementine." "How can you expect her to acknowledge a child twice as old as she is herself ?" "But then I can't acknowledge him any better; so there's no need of my marrying the old woman.

Moreover, I'd be excessively accommodating to break my head for a child who is very likely dead.

What do I say?
It is possible that he never saw the light.