I did not add these things.

"But you are a good deal older," I could not help saying, "in the ways of the world, and it is there that Bob is such an absolute infant." "But I thought an Eton boy was a man of the world ?" said Mrs.Lascelles, quoting me against myself with the utmost readiness.
"Ah, in some things," I had to concede.

"Only in some things, however." "Well," she rejoined, "of course I know what you mean by the other things.

They matter to your mind much more than mere age, even if I had been fifteen years older, instead of five or six.

It's the old story, from the man's point of view.