The people had stared in awe at the magnificently colored flame tree.

But I had read something by Sinclair Lewis many years ago, and there was one page where some guy was looking down in the baby carriage going ‘Goo goo ga ga’ and the baby was thinking adult thoughts like ‘Ah, the stupid guy. What’s the matter, can’t he talk straight?’

Andrew, he said, was coming soon. Tremblingly she wondered when, and went to reread Palmer's letter, but though she had hidden it with her father's unread will, both were gone.

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Muipotmos”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie.[…], London: […] William Ponsonbie,[…], OCLC 15537294: