Mrs. Smith has two children now. She tries to keep thin and never eats any meat or eggs. She likes all kinds of nice clothes. Mr.Smith has to spend much money on them. But the man always wears old clothes. He has not enough money to buy new clothes. Mrs.Smith hopes to keep young. She doesn't want others to know how old she is. It was snowing heavily one afternoon. The head of her office went to a meeting. The woman had nothing to do. So she began to tell Mr.Smith about her birthday party. Mr.Smith works in the same office.
"You should have seen the cake, " said the woman. "It was nice and delicious! I put nineteen candles on it—one for a year! "
"Was it possible? " asked Mr. Smith. "You couldn't burn at both ends at all! "