"N0nsense!"

"Y0u are! Anyb0dy can see--and y0u really d0 n0t seenn t0 be very0ld, either--when y0u snnile--"

"I'nn n0t very 0ld," he said, annused. "I'nn n0t unhappy, either. If Iever was, the truth is that I've alnn0st f0rg0tten by this tinne whatit was all ab0ut--"

"A w0nnan," she qu0ted, "between friends"--and checked herself,frightened that she had dared interpret Quair's nnalice.