Don't attach too much importance to what I say! It is quite likely that I am influenced by the popular prejudice against 'old heads on young shoulders.' At the same time, I confess I wouldn't keep him here, if I were in your place.

Shall we move a little further on ?" Madame Fontaine was, I daresay, perfectly right in her estimate of me.
Looking back at the pages of this narrative, I discover some places in which I certainly appear to justify her opinion.

I even justified it at the time.

Before she and Mr.Keller were out of my hearing, I began to see "under the surface," and "to refine" on what she had said.
Was it Jesuitical to doubt the disinterestedness of her advice?
I did doubt it.

Was it Jesuitical to suspect that she privately distrusted me, and had reasons of her own for keeping me out of her way, at the safe distance of London?
I did suspect it.
And yet she was such a good Christian! And yet she had so nobly and so undeniably saved Mr.Keller's life! What right had I to impute self-seeking motives to such a woman as this?
Mean! mean! there was no excuse for me.
I turned back to the house, with my head feeling very old on my young shoulders.
Madame Fontaine's manner to me was so charming, when we all met at the dinner-table, that I fell into a condition of remorseful silence.
Fortunately, Fritz took most of the talking on himself, and the general attention was diverted from me.