Finally, remember that above them hangs the curse:
"Unstable as water, thou shall not excel."
"Go thou softly with them, all their days!" and whether your tears fall on the ashes of a loved and loving, but weak and wilful one, or whether their tears bedew the grave of the only friend they ever knew, you will not have lacked a rich reward.
CHAPTER XXII
DANGERS AT AND AFTER PUBERTY
"Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, Lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,