There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass. — Isaac Asimov

Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.

You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.

I know nothing of that directly; I only know what I have been told by other young ones who couldn't have known directly either. I want to find out the truth about them and the wanting has grown until there is more of curiosity in me than fear.