"However, perhaps it's important I haven't forgotten I was young.

I think your brother and sister never were very young.

They were soberer than me when I knew them first." "Mortimer _is_ a stick," Barbara agreed.

"He and Grace have a calm superiority that makes one savage now and then.

I like human people, who sometimes let themselves go--" She stopped, and Cartwright noted her wandering glance that searched the beach and the path to the hotel.