"But there are so many puzzling things, too.

Sometimes I feel as if being grown-up just frightened me--and then I would give anything to be a little girl again." "I suppose we'll get used to being grownup in time," said Anne cheerfully.

"There won't be so many unexpected things about it by and by--though, after all, I fancy it's the unexpected things that give spice to life.

We're eighteen, Diana.

In two more years we'll be twenty.
When I was ten I thought twenty was a green old age.