back-five

Updated: May 1, 2025

There was a twinkle of mischief that he had to go back-five years, anyhow, to remember the like of. He had none of Lucile's feeling that decency required one's joy over an event of this sort to be of the chastened variety and he brightened in instantaneous response to the girl's mood, but the mere impact of her left him for a moment wordless. "You needn't try to make me a speech," she said.

Henry Kitchell Webster - Mary Wollaston