I like to know my fellow-men in general, Sir Barnet.

What does Terence say?
Anyone who is the parent of a son is interesting to me.
'Has Mrs Blimber any wish to see any remarkable person ?' asked Sir Barnet, courteously.
Mrs Blimber replied, with a sweet smile and a shake of her sky-blue cap, that if Sir Barnet could have made her known to Cicero, she would have troubled him; but such an introduction not being feasible, and she already enjoying the friendship of himself and his amiable lady, and possessing with the Doctor her husband their joint confidence in regard to their dear son--here young Barnet was observed to curl his nose--she asked no more.
Sir Barnet was fain, under these circumstances, to content himself for the time with the company assembled.

Florence was glad of that; for she had a study to pursue among them, and it lay too near her heart, and was too precious and momentous, to yield to any other interest.
There were some children staying in the house.

Children who were as frank and happy with fathers and with mothers as those rosy faces opposite home.

Children who had no restraint upon their love, and freely showed it.