It would be foolish of me to deny it.

I have been all my life learning, Beatrice," he continued, with a sudden curious softness in his tone, "and yet, somehow or other, it seems to me that I never knew anything at all until lately.

There was no one to direct me, no one to show me just what is worth while in life.

You have taught me a great deal, you have taught me how little I know.

And there are things," he went on, solemnly, "of which I am afraid, things which I do not begin even to understand.