“After a moment's silence, Anna remarked threateningly that children can't be fooled, and she leaned back in her chair and whistled slowly between her teeth. Katri stood up and turned on the light. "You sentimentalise them because they're little," she said. "But the format doesn't matter. I have gradually learned that everyone, absolutely evervone of every size, is out to get something. People want things. It comes to them naturally. Of course they get more skillful with age, and they're no longer so disarmingly obvious, but the goal doesn't change. Your children simply haven't had time to learn how it's done. That's what we call innocence."”

—Katri