" Roger reflected that it was a pity children had to grow up; by this time next year Stephen would be a schoolboy and the childish innocence would have vanished . . . but one could not help it of course. One could only do one’s best to see that the child grew into a boy and the boy into a man smoothly, and with the least possible suffering . . . and that there were as few “nasty things” as possible in his cupboard of memory to roll out unexpectedly and make him uncomfortable. "

― D.E. Stevenson , Summerhills (Ayrton Family Book 2)