That wasn't right, dear.

Mother was wrong.

She shouldn't try to influence you against your father.

He is a good man; and there are none too many good men in the world--No, no, I won't say that," she broke off.
But she'd already said it, and, of course, I knew she was thinking of the violinist.

I'm no child.
She went on more after that, quite a lot more.