"I don't see that. I don't quite understand that. But it has nothing to do with my present purpose. When I said that we were neither of us so young as we once were, I uttered what was a stupid platitude,--a foolish truism."
"I did not think so," said Lady Carbury smiling.
"Or would have been, only that I intended something further." Mr. Broune had got himself into a difficulty and hardly knew how to get out of it. "I was going on to say that I hoped we were not too old to--love."

"When I said that we were neither of us so young as we once were, I uttered a stupid platitude."
"I did not think so," said Lady Carbury, smiling.
"I intended something further." Mr. Broune had got himself into a difficulty and hardly knew how to get out of it. "I was going on to say that I hoped we were not too old to - love."
