Jeremy by Hugh Walpole

He had no intention of disobedience. Had he been once definitely told by someone in authority that he was not to go to the fair he would not have dreamt of going. He had no intention of disobedience- -but he had returned from the Cow Farm holiday in a strange condition of mind.

He had found there this summer more freedom than he had been ever allowed in his life before, and it had been freedom that had come, not so much from any change of rules, but rather from his own attitude to the family--simply he had wanted to do certain things, and he had done them and the family had stood aside. He began to be aware that he had only to push and things gave way--a dangerous knowledge, and its coming marks a period in one's life.