That's a very nice friendly sort of caring, I admit, and keeps the world warm and homelike, just as having a fire in the room keeps the room warm and homelike; but it doesn't teach one much." Christopher smiled sadly.

"Doesn't it?
I should have thought that it taught one a good deal." "Oh! but not as much as a lovely romantic attachment would teach one--not as much as Alan and Felicia are teaching each other now." "Don't you think so ?" "Of course I don't.

Why, you've never taught me anything, Chris, though we've always been fond of each other in the comfortable, easy fashion." "Then the fault has been in me, for you have taught me a great many things, Elisabeth." "Because I've taken the trouble to do so.

But the worst of it is that by the time I've taught you anything, I have changed my mind about it myself, and find I've been teaching you all wrong.

And it is a bother to begin to unteach you." "I wonder why.