My mother is only fifty, and we sometimes call her the old woman.

Do you think she looks older than that?
We all say that she makes herself out to be so much more ancient than she need do." "Lady Lufton does not dress young." "That is it.

She never has, in my memory.

She always used to wear black when I first recollect her.

She has given that up now; but she is still very sombre; is she not ?" "I do not like ladies to dress very young, that is, ladies of--of--" "Ladies of fifty, we will say ?" "Very well; ladies of fifty, if you like it." "Then I am sure you will like my mother." They had now turned up through the parsonage wicket, a little gate that opened into the garden at a point on the road nearer than the chief entrance.