He felt sometimes that he would never have married her if he had known that she would have so many years before her, when he had so few.

It was not natural.

She would live fifteen or twenty years after he was gone, and might spend a lot of money; she had always had extravagant tastes.

For all he knew she might want to buy one of these motor-cars.

Cicely and Rachel and Imogen and all the young people--they all rode those bicycles now and went off Goodness knew where.