"Your mother, Philip, sees further in the matter than you do, and does not care about advising you, since you will not listen to her."
He liked to tell the story of that day and night when his friends were recounting adventures by sea and land; but he never said much about the hours on the ledge, always owned that Chris shot the beast, and usually ended by sagely advising his hearers to let their mothers know, when they went off on a lark of that kind.