She did not recover her good spirits until we were out on the pretty , grassy , elm-shaded country road , garlanded with its ribbon of buttercups . Then she suddenly turned around and looked me over scrutinizingly . `` You 're not as good-looking as I expected from your picture , but them photographs always flatter . That 's the reason I never had any took . You 're rather thin and brown . But you 've good eyes and you look clever . Your father writ me you had n't much sense , though . He wants me to teach you some , but it 's a thankless business . People would rather be fools . '' Aunt Philippa struck her steed smartly with the whip and controlled his resultant friskiness with admirable skill . `` Well , you know it 's pleasanter , '' I said , wickedly . `` Just think what a doleful world it would be if everybody were sensible . '' Aunt Philippa looked at me out of the corner of her eye and disdained any skirmish of flippant epigram . `` So you want to get married ? '' she said . `` You 'd better wait till you 're grown up . '' `` How old must a person be before she is grown up ? '' I asked gravely . `` Humph ! That depends .
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