DOLLY (quoting). "Answer all your children's questions, and answer
them truthfully, as soon as they are old enough to ask them." See
Twentieth Century Motherhood---

PHILIP. Page one---

DOLLY. Chapter one---

PHILIP. Sentence one.

MRS. CLANDON. My dears: I did not say that you were too young to
know. I said you were too young to be taken into my confidence. You
are very bright children, all of you; but I am glad for your sakes that
you are still very inexperienced and consequently very unsympathetic.
There are some experiences of mine that I cannot bear to speak of except
to those who have gone through what I have gone through. I hope you
will never be qualified for such confidences. But I will take care that
you shall learn all you want to know. Will that satisfy you?

PHILIP. Another grievance, Dolly.

DOLLY. We're not sympathetic.

GLORIA (leaning forward in her chair and looking earnestly up at her
mother). Mother: I did not mean to be unsympathetic.

MRS. CLANDON (affectionately). Of course not, dear. Do you think I
don't understand?

GLORIA (rising). But, mother---