It has taken us 20 years to build it; and you sell it to the wrong person, in six months they destroy it. 'We will not go back in the business. The name will die - but it will be ours.

The reason we are doing this is that we are both over 65 and in reasonably good health. We want to do the things our parents and grandparents didn't get to do.

But it won't be with my merchandise, my expertise or my wife's.

We're an institution. We've been here for 20 years, as of April 3.

We would see them as high school students; then they would introduce their bride and their offspring.