She was at a loss how to reply, and somewhat sore put to hide her inexperience in affairs of the sort.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
She had seen him, on a day, like a boy of eighteen, loving the world and everything in it, having, too, a curious inexperience of the things that life might mean to people, unable, apparently, to see the sterner side of life at all-and then suddenly that had gone and given place to a mood in which no one could help him, nothing could cheer him...
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
All the glowing pictures of wealth and success which he had drawn now seemed mere pitiful traps to catch him, Gerard, in his youth and inexperience.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford