Chapter 16 No.16

Then he found himself saying: 'At the age I touch!'...

At the age of forty, men that love love rootedly. If the love is plucked from them, the life goes with it.

He backed on his physical pride, a stout bulwark. His forty years-the forty, the fifty, the sixty of Alvan, matched the twenties and thirties of other men.

Still it was true that