Used to wonder wheir S’s as F’s, and if so, why.
tep beanding over me. It he vicar.
But I mean t terton, ter of fact, ever since I could remember, but since 1904 or ts. I recognized once, te we.
recognize me. I tripper in a blue suit doing a bit of sigly started on talk—erested in arcecture, remarkable old building tions go back to Saxon times and so on and so forts, suco try, brass effigy of Sir Roderick Bone tle of Ne did I tell I kne all already? Did I tell I I’d not only listened to en years and gone to ion classes, but even belonged to t Sesame and Lilies just to please . I merely follo t is five t to say except t it doesn’t look it. From t t I set eyes on o let ranger. As soon as I decently could I dropped sixpence in the Church Expenses box and bunked.
But act, no at last I’d found somebody I knew?
Because ter ty years ually frig ! suddenly taug time.
I suppose old Betterton sixty-five no y-five—my o age. e no reaky grey, like a s as soon as I sa struck me of er all so very old. As a boy, it occurred to me, all people over forty o me just old ty-five o me older ty-five seemed noy-five myself. It frightened me.
So t’s o cy, I t as I made off bet a poor old care a damn about my age. , but I’m strong and to do. A rose smells to me no did y. A do I smell to t een, came up to pass a tiny momentary look. No, not frigile. Only kind of e, like a y years wo world from me, like an animal.
I back to ted a drink, but t open for anot for a bit, reading a Sporting and Dramatic of tly t mige yearning to get off ed to s t, even if to eeter all, I t, if sy and I’m forty-five, t’s fair enouganding in front of ty fireplace, making believe to I didn’t look so bad. A bit fat, no doubt, but distingue. A man of tockbroker. I put on my toniest accent and said casually:
‘onderful June her we’re having.’
It ty it? Nor in t I met you somewhere before?’
But it a success. S ans o you lik