Poor
mother used to say when I was quite little, 'You'll only make
yourself cheap, Carrie, if you go on like that. Don't make yourself
cheap, dear.' But what I say is, one's only young once and the
people who don't want one needn't have one."
Nevertheless there were, even in these very early days, directions
into which Maggie did not follow her new friend. Young as she was in
many things, in some ways she was very old indeed. She had been
trained in another school from Caroline; she felt from the very
first that upon certain questions her lovely friend was
inexperienced, foolish and dangerously reckless. On the question of
"men," for instance, Maggie, with clear knowledge of her father and
her uncle, refused to follow Caroline's light and easy excursions.
Caroline was disappointed; she had a great deal to say on the
subject and could speak, she assured Maggie, from a vast variety of
experience: "Men are all the same. What I say is, show them you
don't care 'that' about them and they'll come after you. Not that I
care whether they do or no. Only it's fun the way they go on. You
just try, Maggie.
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