`` i do n't know which should be most afraid of the other , '' she said , again smiling '' if you were less pretty i think i should be very much afraid of you , but being as you are , and you and i both so young , i feel only that i have made your acquaintance twelve years ago , and have already a right to your intimacy ; at all events it does seem as if we were destined , from our earliest childhood , to be friends .