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Fine ! '' `` Is it any wonder I suffer , son ? Twenty-one years to have kept you by me a child . A boy that never in his life was out after midnight except to catch trains . A boy that never has so much as looked at a girl and could have looked at princesses . To have kept you all these years -- mine -- is it any wonder , son , I never stop praying my thanks for you ? You do n't believe Hancock , son , the way he keeps always teasing you that you should have a -- what he calls -- affair -- a love-affair ?