"Why don't you answer my question?
What's the matter with using a little more tact on papa?
Why can't you treat him the way you probably did when you were young people, before you were married?
I never have understood why people can't do that." "Perhaps you WILL understand some day," her mother said, gently.

"Maybe you will when you've been married twenty-five years." "You keep evading.

Why don't you answer my question right straight out ?" "There are questions you can't answer to young people, Alice." "You mean because we're too young to understand the answer?
I don't see that at all.

At twenty-two a girl's supposed to have some intelligence, isn't she?
And intelligence is the ability to understand, isn't it?
Why do I have to wait till I've lived with a man twenty-five years to understand why you can't be tactful with papa ?" "You may understand some things before that," Mrs.Adams said, tremulously.

"You may understand how you hurt me sometimes.