Early excesses the frame will recover from: late ones break the constitution.
There's the case in a nutshell.

How's your son ?" "Sound and well!" replied Sir Austin.

"And yours ?" "Oh, Lipscombe's always the same!" Lord Heddon sighed peevishly.

"He's quiet--that's one good thing; but there's no getting the country to take him, so I must give up hopes of that." Lord Lipscombe entering the room just then, Sir Austin surveyed him, and was not astonished at the refusal of the country to take him.
"Wild oats!" he thought, as he contemplated the headless, degenerate, weedy issue and result.
Both Darley Absworthy and Lord Heddon spoke of the marriage of their offspring as a matter of course.

"And if I were not a coward," Sir Austin confessed to himself, "I should stand forth and forbid the banns! This universal ignorance of the inevitable consequence of sin is frightful! The wild oats plea is a torpedo that seems to have struck the world, and rendered it morally insensible." However, they silenced him.
He was obliged to spare their feelings on a subject to him so deeply sacred.