How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
There are big square bedrooms above, smelling of old times, and the old. (1.46)
What do old times smell like, exactly? Know, we don't know. Just offering that question up as food for thought.
Quote #5
I hadn't thought of such a thing. I didn't know grown people changed, or were changed. I thought being grown was safer than that. (7.47)
Tilly's referring here to her own older people. It must be weird to have the tables turned and have a young person thinking the same thing about her.
Quote #6
Delphine, whose fan moved in time with the music now, chanted:
Let's dance the Calinda,
Dance the Calinda close together,
Let's dance the Calinda
To make the old ladies mad. (8.49)
There is, or at least there used to be, a stereotype that old ladies don't like young people to have fun, especially the kind of fun that involves physical, ahem, interaction. What would Tilly and Delphine think of that in their old age?