Re: By the punchbowl
Laughing with surprise at her verbal admission to nodding, he gave a nod himself, "Well, I'm glad you told me. Stunned silence is always confusing for me. And I am old, since you sound no more than early twenties in age while I am forties. I know, I know. Dusted myself off to come out," not that he truly thought himself old, but his humour always was self deprecating first.