Perhaps only a mother would really understand.

But it makes me a little sad and bewildered.
My boy--my little baby, who lay in my arms and learnt everything from me.

And now he looks down and lectures me from such an immense height of superiority, never dreaming that I'm laughing in my heart, because it's only little Peter, after all." "And he doesn't lecture Sarah ?" "Oh no; he doesn't lecture Sarah.

She is too young to be lectured with impunity, and too wise.

Besides, I think since he went away, and saw Sarah flattered and spoilt, and queening it among the great people who didn't know him even by sight, that he has realized that their relative positions have changed a good deal.