The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I was afraid you’d gotten a bit idiotic over your work. Read the damnedest interview you gave out—”

      Dick interrupted with an agonized expression.

      “Good Lord! Don’t mention it. Young lady wrote it—most admiring young lady. Kept telling me my work was ‘strong,’ and I sort of lost my head and made a lot of strange pronouncements. Some of it was good, though, don’t you think?”

      “Oh, yes; that part about the wise writer writing for the youth of his generation, the critic of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterward.”

      “Oh, I believe a lot of it,” admitted Richard Caramel with a faint beam. “It simply was a mistake to give it out.”