I'd trust you with anything," she replied, impulsively.
"How long have you been going with boys ?" "Oh, for two years, I guess.

I had a passionate love affair when I was thirteen," she replied, with the nonchalance and sophistication of experience.
It was impossible for Lane to take this latter remark for anything but the glib boldness of an erotic child.

But he was not making any assurances to himself that he was right.

Bessy Bell was fifteen years old, according to time.

But she had the physical development of eighteen, and a mental range beyond his ken.