[He pauses, and soon laughs, well and full.] When you say it that way, it most certainly does! Yet as I see it, the game did not come to a premature end, as sustained youth, or youth alone, would make of a life. It was brief, in that way a life is brief. Short, but so full of activity and experience, and when the time came, perhaps too soon for some, namely the one suffering loss, simply ended as it sould.