"Mamma says I'm too young to have it done up this way yet, but I don't care what she says.

I'm fifteen, and I think I'm old enough to do as I choose.

To-morrow we'll make Elise do yours up and see how you look." "But I'm only fourteen," protested Patty, "and I don't want to be grown up for years yet.

Your hair looks lovely, but I like you better with it down, as it was this afternoon." "Don't say so before mamma, or shell insist on my wearing it so." When the girls entered the drawing-room, Mrs.St.Clair smiled amiably at her pretty niece, and bade her come to her side.
"My dear," she said, "you are a pretty little girl, and a sweet one, I've no doubt, but your name I do not like at all.

I can't abide nicknames, so I'm going to call you by your full name.