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But if she were twenty years young, she was equally twenty years OLD; and twenty years old, in some respects, is the greatest age attained to by man or woman. In this she rather differed from Alastor, of whom otherwise she was the female counterpart. Her talk, and something rather in her voice than her talk, soon revealed her as a curious mixture of youth and age, of dreamer and desillusionee.
It was not so with you once, Bertha. Don't don't become that terrible thing, a fine lady, and worse still, a fine lady who is désillusionée" It baffled him that she never appeared much moved, by his charges. Certainly she lived the life of a "fine lady," a brilliant life, a luxurious one, a life full of polite dissipation.
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