Mrs. D #16

“Now that one was old…now that one was mature…one could watch, one could understand, and one did not lose the power of feeling” (p193). Peter Walsh explains how, now that he has matured, he is able to know people. He says when he was young he “was too much excited” to fathom relationships. Peter and Sally both agree that they feel more passionately about things which before had an inferior effect on them. Woolf must have appreciated growing mature, enjoying the wisdom that comes with it.