"The second thing," Teja say. "And I have never held it against any -- merely considered him not yet tried and trusted. For you may never know how any will react to hardship, unless you saw him face it."

He draws a bit, then adds, "Suffering does not make one noble; and there is nothing noble in it, by itself. It will only show how that one will bear up under future suffering, which will come, sooner or later, in any life. And the older he is when he learns, the harder the lesson will be."