"I must learn while he is away to--to depend on myself.

It is not likely that--that a woman of my age should have much in common with a manly boy like Peter.
Sometimes I wonder whether I really understand my boy at all." "It is my belief," said John, "that no generation is in perfect touch with another.

Each stands on a different rung of the ladder of Time.
You may stoop to lend a helping hand to the younger, or reach upwards to take a farewell of the older.

But there must be a looking down or a looking up.

No face-to-face talk is possible except upon the same level.