Dorothy was an innocent, harmless little girl, who had been carried by a cyclone many miles from home; and she had never killed anything in all her life.
The world was altered, too; and as I stood at my mother's grave, I could hardly realize that I was the same thoughtless, happy creature, whose cheeks she so often kissed in an excess of tenderness.
My father was clearly mimicking Socratic irony, which would start with an innocent " You don't say, " only then to lead his interlocutor onto turbulent shoals.
Throughout the series, she transforms from an innocent, sheltered girl into a shrewd and determined empress dowager, navigating the dangerous intrigues of the palace.
Your retrospections must be so totally void of reproach, that the contentment arising from them is not of philosophy, but, what is much better, of innocence.