Perhaps. Oh yes, I know that. Age takes you, indeed and what may happen then, no matter how strange it may be is no more than a mocking afterword.

[He looks down at his hands, unable to speak a moment.]

You remind me very much of her- of a woman I knew once. I think she also knew what it was to glimpse glory.

[He looks up sharply at the next thing she says, though.]

Your... I cannot help but believe!