"Ah, I was never too young to understand. That's the difference between you and me."
"That makes it all the worse, then."
"All the worse! So that's what you think? How does it make you feel to me?"
"It makes me feel that I want to take you away, and warm you and wrap you round, so that nothing could ever touch you and hurt you any more."
"That's how it makes you feel?"
"That's how it makes us both feel."
"He takes it that way, too?"
"Of course he does. Any nice man would."
"If I were nice——"
"You are nice."