One of the walks in the park with distant relatives. Girl Dasha is their daughter. She is almost always out of age serious and judicious. Looking at her, I recall a quote from John Steinbeck’s book “East of Eden,” Mr. Truck, do you think that people’s aspirations become important only from a certain age? Do you now have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts than at ten? Do you perceive the sounds, colors, smells of the world as brightly and vividly as then?