"Only--I've started to make friends," he says, with a kind of trembling gladness. "True friends, not people who wanted my father's ear. I've fallen in love, and may yet fall in love again. I've done foolish things for the joy of foolery, and made mistakes that harrowed me to my heart. All those things that I felt I couldn't do, when I was sixteen, I've begun to do in earnest."