Once, in his callow days, he had been intoxicated.

He took a curious vicarious delight in the escapades of his son, probably because he himself had committed no follies in his callow days.

In my callow days, when they occupied pedestals, I bent the knee to them by way of propitiating them, but I got bravely over that.

"Let the Boy have his little secrets," he thought, remembering his own callow days.

"You see, I had ambitions in my callow days, and it's not my fault that hitherto I've never had a part to play."