英文原版小说Almost a Woman.   
Mr. Wayne, glancing out of the window, saw some one passing down thefront steps. Suddenly a look of recognition came into his face, and heturned to his wife with the exclamation, "I declare, Mary, our daughterHelen is almost a woman, isn\'t she?""Yes," replied Mrs. Wayne, coming to his side and watching the slenderfigure going down the street. Her face bore a look of motherly pride,but she sighed, as she said.