It will be three years before you are of age.

To suppose that you may need a guardian, therefore, is neither improbable nor alarming; and my reason for proposing to settle in France is, that you may be within a short distance of him." Lucia could only assent.
"I shall try," her mother continued, "to persuade him to pay us a visit there, and to bring his wife, who is a good woman, and I am sure would be kind to my child.

I long very much, Lucia, sometimes, to know that, though I can never see the dear old home again, you may do so." "Have they any children ?" Lucia asked, her thoughts dwelling on the Wynters.
"They have lost several, George told me.

There are three living, and the eldest, I think, is about your age." They had talked themselves quite calm now.

The idea of her own death had only troubled Mrs.Costello with regard to Lucia; and now that she was in some measure prepared for it, it seemed even less terrible than before.