I'll hurry on and see how she is." As he rode off he gave a grunt.
"Humph!" It might have meant any one of several things.

Perhaps, what it did mean was that "Youth is the same the world over, and here is a chance for this boy to make a fool of himself and he will probably do it, as I did." As the Doctor jogged on over the rocky road, his brow was knit in deep reflection; but his thoughts were far away among other pines on the Piscataqua.

That boy's face had turned the dial back nearly forty years..