12/57 Jeremy was not given to the consideration of other people's motives--his own independence saved him from anxiety about others. He had the English characteristic of fancying that others must like and dislike as he himself liked and disliked. Of sentiment he had no knowledge whatever. She did not know what had happened to him. In the old days he had asked her opinion about many things; he had scorned to enjoy the long stories that she had told him--at any rate, he had listened to them very politely--and he had asked her to suggest games or to play with his toys. |