But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn’t hard to guess what he must have been like as a young man–for a man’s character doesn’t change after he’s thirty. It only becomes more firmly set, and is more deeply marked in his features

But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn’t hard to guess what he must have been like as a young man–for a man’s character doesn’t change after he’s thirty. It only becomes more firmly set, and is more deeply marked in his features (Ralph Moody, Shaking the Nickel Bush)