They are wiser, cooler, they know so much, every detail.

And, indeed, what are these miseries of which you speak?
What am I to know?
Do you mean--" He stopped blankly.
"I am still hardly more than a girl," she said.

"But to me the world seems full of wretchedness.

The world has altered since your day, altered very strangely.

I have prayed that I might see you and tell you these things.