Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.

Don't worry over it, Anne.

Do your duty by God and your neighbor and yourself, and have a good time.

That's my philosophy and it's always worked pretty well.
Where's Phil off to tonight ?" "She's going to a dance, and she's got the sweetest dress for it--creamy yellow silk and cobwebby lace.

It just suits those brown tints of hers." "There's magic in the words 'silk' and 'lace,' isn't there ?" said Aunt Jamesina.