twenty-eight-and-a-half

Updated: August 10, 2026

She said that I was ruining my health in the service of an ungrateful country, and added that she, personally, declined to be left a widow at twenty-eight-and-a-half to oblige anybody. "It is exactly the wrong age," she said. "If it had happened four or five years ago, I could have done pretty well for myself.

Ian Hay - The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton