`` I can scarcely realize that I 'm in my teens . When I woke this morning it seemed to me that everything must be different . You 've been thirteen for a month , so I suppose it does n't seem such a novelty to you as it does to me . It makes life seem so much more interesting . In two more years I 'll be really grown up . It 's a great comfort to think that I 'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at . '' `` Ruby Gillis says she means to have a beau as soon as she 's fifteen , '' said Diana . `` Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but beaus , '' said Anne disdainfully . `` She 's actually delighted when anyone writes her name up in a take-notice for all she pretends to be so mad . But I 'm afraid that is an uncharitable speech . Mrs. Allan says we should never make uncharitable speeches ; but they do slip out so often before you think , do n't they ? I simply ca n't talk about Josie Pye without making an uncharitable speech , so I never mention her at all . You may have noticed that . I 'm trying to be as much like Mrs. Allan as I possibly can , for I think she 's perfect . Mr. Allan thinks so too . Mrs. Lynde says he just worships the ground she treads on and she does n't really think it right for a minister to set his affections so much on a mortal being . But then , Diana , even ministers are human and have their besetting sins just like everybody else . I had such an interesting talk with Mrs. Allan about besetting sins last Sunday afternoon . There are just a few things it 's proper to talk about on Sundays and that is one of them . My besetting sin is imagining too much and forgetting my duties .
I 'm striving very hard XXXXX overcome it and now that I 'm really thirteen perhaps I 'll get on better . ''
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