“Much is made of mothers pining for their little sons when it’s time for them to go to school, but among the toffs they hardly spend time with their children anyway; they’re raised by nurses and governesses and such, and sent away to school until they’re old enough to join adult society. I don’t have any brothers, so I don’t know firsthand, but there is a prevailing attitude that boys raised by women are made soft and unmanly by it.”
