This afternoon, Jessie had dropped into her husband's office for a moment, after doing some shopping in Wakefield. As he looked at his wife's face, Ben was thinking that Jessie seemed to get younger every day. It gave him a little pang, for he himself was feeling his age more and more. He'd noticed it more recently, how much older he was, in contrast to Jessie's vitality - for she had quite suddenly begun to bloom...