But it's a disappointment.

Yes, I think you must let me look inside.' He did.

And at the first one he said nothing.

At the second he laughed.
'Well, well,' he said, 'we can't expect old heads on young shoulders.
You're not the first who went forth to shear and returned shorn.

Nor, it appears, am I.Next time you have a Sale of Antiquities, take care that you yourself are not "sold".