14/40 You have no idea how amusing new people are. That's the way to keep young, too." "It is a little too late for us to think of youth--or to think as youth thinks--even if it were desirable." "It _is_ desirable. Youth--which will be age to-morrow--may venture to draw a little consideration in advance--" "My children interest me--and I give their youth my full consideration. You ask impossibilities of two very old people." "I do not mean to. I ask only, then, that you and father take a vital and intelligent interest in me. |