"I am ready to believe all the nice things you can say, as fast as you can say them, when I am with _you_" she said, with a raillery rather mournful than gay.

"But when I am with Peter, I seem to realize dreadfully that I'm only a middle-aged woman of average capacity, and with very little knowledge of the world.

He does his best to teach me.

That's funny, isn't it ?" "It's very like--a very young man," said John, gently.
"You mustn't think I'm mocking at my boy--like Sarah," she said vehemently.

"Perhaps I am wrong to tell you.