Boys, I think, always make heroines of women much older than themselves.

I looked upon you as a dear, bright little girl, whom I would have cared for and protected as I would my favourite dog.

Some boys are given to heroine worship.

I don't think that is my line.

I am only just getting out of my boyhood now, and I have never had a heroine at all." So they sat and chatted, easily and pleasantly, as if four years had been rolled back, and they were boy and girl again in the garden of Windthorpe Chace.
"I suppose I shall see you every evening at the court ?" Rupert said.
"I suppose so," the girl sighed.