“Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?”
“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,But young men think it is, and we were young.”
“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
“Well, it is a good thing he died young. Most men don’t have the good sense to knowwhen to quit this earth. At least your husband didn’t drag on and on like some do.”
“...of the few young men and boys at the fort, now that she was too old for racing and climbing trees with them, she felt both shy and critical...”