"He forgot that the danger of another is also the property of that other, and that only for a few years may (one) answer for the actions or discretion of another... For (another) is not long to be reckoned a doll or a pet, but as (one) who must stand or fall by (his/her) own efforts."
... The Mabinogion Tetralogy; The Fourth Branch, Book Two: Llew; by Evangeline Walton