Robin lifted her face, but her hands still held the book with the touch which clung.
"I am beginning to realise what a strange life mine has been," she said.
"Don't you think it has, Dowie?
I haven't known things.

I didn't know what mothers were.

I never knew another child until I met Donal in the Gardens.

No one had ever kissed me until he did.

When I was older I didn't know anything about love and marrying--really.