Josephine Dodge Daskam, Middle Aged Love Stories — Advertisements (1903)
“ The colonel laughed contentedly. “When I see that sort of thing, I think we’ve made a mistake—eh, Varian?” he said, half serious. “It’s a poor job, getting old alone. Live at the club, visit here and there, make yourself agreeable to get asked again, nobody to care if you’re sick, always play the other fellow’s game—little monotonous after a while, eh?” ”
