But for the first few weeks I know I won't.
I shan't even have the comfort of looking forward to the weekend visit home, as I had when I went to Queen's.

Christmas will seem like a thousand years away." "Everything is changing--or going to change," said Diana sadly.

"I have a feeling that things will never be the same again, Anne." "We have come to a parting of the ways, I suppose," said Anne thoughtfully.

"We had to come to it.

Do you think, Diana, that being grown-up is really as nice as we used to imagine it would be when we were children ?" "I don't know--there are SOME nice things about it," answered Diana, again caressing her ring with that little smile which always had the effect of making Anne feel suddenly left out and inexperienced.