"I fear they are rather young yet," I said. "Perhaps it might do them harm."
"It would be all the better for us to have them anyhow," said Ethelwyn, smiling.
"How do you mean, my dear?"
"Because you will say things more simply if you have them by you. Besides, you always say such things to children as delight grown people, though they could never get them out of you."
It was a wife's speech, reader. Forgive me for writing it.
"Well," I said, "I don't mind them coming in, but I don't promise to say anything directly to them. And you must let them go away the moment they wish it."
"Certainly," answered my wife; and so the matter was arranged.