But though she felt that she had done right, she was not wholly without misgivings that she might have introduced some objectionable talk into her nursery.

When the time came to send the second lad to school, she repeated the talk that she had had with his elder brother.

But to her surprise she found him in total ignorance of the facts: his elder brother had never confided them to him.

And so again with the third boy.

Evidently the boys had considered it too sacred a thing to talk about--how much too sacred, then, to allow of their joining in with the unclean gossip of schoolboys! Its only result was to give them an added tenderness for their mother, and to make them resent all such unclean talk as so much mud flung at her.
So far, so good.