"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. In no time you'll

be a staid, middle-aged matron, and I shall be nice, old maid Aunt Anne,

coming to visit you on vacations. You'll always keep a corner for me,

won't you, Di darling? Not the spare room, of course--old maids can't

aspire to spare rooms, and I shall be as 'umble as Uriah Heep, and quite

content with a little over-the-porch or off-the-parlor cubby hole."