The Boy

Oh!

The Man

Why, you might have told from my poems how I believe in love.

The Boy

I don't remember any love poems.

The Man

Bless your heart! Every one of them was a love poem. Not the old-fashioned kind, about fading roses and tender hearts.... I sent that book out as a cry for the mate. It is charged with the fulness of love. That's why I could write about trees and storms.

The Boy

I suppose if I had been older....