She appeared to him not a day older, standing there in mole-coloured velvet corduroy, with soft dark eyes and dark gold hair, with outstretched hand and a little smile.
"Won't you sit down ?" He had probably never occupied a chair with a fuller sense of embarrassment.
"You look absolutely unchanged," he said.
"And you look younger, Cousin Jolyon." Jolyon ran his hands through his hair, whose thickness was still a comfort to him.
"I'm ancient, but I don't feel it.

That's one thing about painting, it keeps you young.

Titian lived to ninety-nine, and had to have plague to kill him off.

Do you know, the first time I ever saw you I thought of a picture by him ?" "When did you see me for the first time ?" "In the Botanical Gardens." "How did you know me, if you'd never seen me before ?" "By someone who came up to you." He was looking at her hardily, but her face did not change; and she said quietly: "Yes; many lives ago." "What is your recipe for youth, Irene ?" "People who don't live are wonderfully preserved." H'm! a bitter little saying! People who don't live! But an opening, and he took it.

"You remember my Cousin Soames ?" He saw her smile faintly at that whimsicality, and at once went on: "He came to see me the day before yesterday! He wants a divorce.