"That he is just twenty-nine and Rosemary thirty-seven – though she hardly looks thirty – is in his opinion unimportant..."

"Just fancy! He is only nine-and twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care..."

"I was twenty-nine, a young man, an established writer, and life lay all before me..."

"He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing..."

"A very good age to be married at..."

"But here I am by Jesus Christ almost thirty years old and very anxious to live…"

"‘Twenty-nine.’ Said boldly, as if his age were one of his less arguable virtues or qualifications..."

"He wants to settle down. After all, he is twenty-nine, he has lived by himself since he was thirteen..."

"People said twenty-nine was a landmark but he didni really care one way or the other..."