"I daresay not. No."
"Those were innocent days," continued the Duchess, with an attempt at pathos that resembled the efforts of a partially imaginative elephant to become a fairy.
"Yes, toddlers are generally innocent, I suppose."
"Innocent and open-hearted."
"Yes. They wear their hearts on their frills, don't they?"
"In after-life it is different."
"What a pity!"
"The respectability of childhood becomes impaired."
"Does it?"