Read this passage from Through the Looking-Glass.
The tone of this dialogue is
"Seven years and six months!" Humpty Dumpty
repeated thoughtfully. "An uncomfortable sort of age.
O peaceful.
Now if you'd asked MY advice, I'd have said 'Leave off
embarrassed.
at seven but it's too late now."
O tense
never ask advice about growing," Alice said
O satisfied.
indignantly.
*Too proud?" the other inquired.
Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion.
mean," she said, *that one can't help growing older.'
"ONE can't, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty, but TWO
can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at
seven.
