Page:The Golden Bowl (Scribner, New York, 1909), Volume 1.djvu/198

THE GOLDEN BOWL altered." He accepted equally for the time this somewhat cryptic remark; he still failed to challenge her even when she added that it wouldn't so much matter if he hadn't been so terribly young. He uttered a sound of protest only when she went on to declare that she ought as a daughter, in common decency, to have waited. Yet by that time she was already herself admitting that she should have had to wait long—if she waited, that is, till he was old. But there was a way. "Since you are an irresistible youth we've got to face it. That's somehow what that woman has made me feel. There'll be others."