"I am a Latinist: I can train falcons and hounds and break horses.

I do not know if there is anything else that I can do." "You darling!" she said again.
* * * * * These two, as will have been seen, were as simple as children, and as serious.

Children are not gay and light-hearted, except now and then (just as men and women are not serious except now and then).

They are grave and considering: all that they lack is experience.

These two, then, were real children; they were grave and serious because a great thing had disclosed itself to them in which two or three large principles were present, and no more.