I did know so well that you'd come back to London, Mr.Finn.You are not a bit altered." "I feel to be changed in everything." "Why should you be altered?
It's only two years.

I am altered because of Baby.

That does change a woman.

Of course I'm thinking always of what he will do in the world; whether he'll be a master of hounds or a Cabinet Minister or a great farmer;--or perhaps a miserable spendthrift, who will let everything that his grandfathers and grandmothers have done for him go to the dogs." "Why do you think of anything so wretched, Lady Chiltern ?" "Who can help thinking?
Men do do so.

It seems to me that that is the line of most young men who come to their property early.