"Nobody can say we're still too young to pledge after this journey!"

They were young, after all, and so was their world.

Perhaps not that young after all, Kate thought, and left them to it.

He was so young to lose what he had, after all.

How could he have been young after so many wars?

Actually, he appeared years younger after his treatment and repair.

He wasn't more than two years younger than she was, after all.

He was young, clean, alive again after a kind of death.

There is no contact between the mother and young after this point.

He was the youngest of the group, after all, and by far the least experienced in such matters.