But doesn't all this look as if it were Peter, after all ?" "If only I could think she were in earnest," Lady Mary said again.
"But he is such a boy.

She has three times his cleverness in some ways, and three times his experience, though she is younger than he.

I suppose women mature much earlier than men.

It galls my pride when she orders him about, and laughs at him.

But he--he doesn't understand." "Perhaps," said John, slowly, "he understands better than you think.
Each generation has a freemasonry of its own.