“Why not?”

“I’m not so little. We’re nearly the same age and I’m taller than you.”

“Age and height don’t make one big. It is experience, and you are lacking experience.”

“Lacking experience in what?”

“In what? In everything. In women, in outlook, whatever. You’re a child.”

“And you dragged me here to tell me that?”

“I didn’t drag you. You are making yourself the victim again.” Suthep chuckled. Jatupon avowed the truth of this with a smile.

“You make it sound like Mother and Father defended me as the baby boy” he half joked.

“Well, Kazem took up that role when we were out to beat you senseless.”

“Don’t you ever want to return?”