“The Senator's wife was late. Very late.”
“We’re late. For a VERY important date”
“Very early in my life it was too late.”
“Very early in my life it was already too late.”
“Where other women ... were lovely, Annie Gamache was alive. Late, too late, Jean Guy Beauvoir had come to appreciate how very important it was, how very attractive it was, how very rare it was, to be fully alive.”
“Afore me! It is so very late,That we may call it early by and by.”