"That's right." said the old man. "Ninety-nine years old, and I haven't an enemy in the world. They're all dead."   "Well, sir." said the interviewer , "I hope very much to have the honour  of interviewing you on your hundredth birthday."   The old man looked at the young man closely, and said, "I can't see why you shouldn't. you look fit and healthy to me!" When the interviewer said that he hoped very much to have the honor of interviewing the old man again the following year,   _  .
he was trying to make the old man happy he wished he himself would live another year he did not believe the old man would live to be one hundred he did not believe he would interview the old man again