You are still the same impractical theorist.
NATHANIEL
I am the same theorist—a little older, a little more travelled. The trouble with you, John, is that you think no age is important except your own. You always thought that, even when you were fourteen. Oh, I know I wasn't born then, but I know you.
JOHN
Did you come back to your home in order to lecture me?
NATHANIEL
No, no, I beg your pardon. I came back to see my home and Aunt Letitia and the children—and you, and I—I think—Jonathan.
JOHN
Nathaniel, when your letter came telling me that you had decided to come back to see us, I was going to ask you not to come—
NATHANIEL