second-childish

Updated: May 12, 2025

I often feel like that; but there's nobody to tell, except the trees and the dogs, and my poor pony, who is almost too old and second-childish now to understand. She was my brother Stanforth's pony first of all, and Stanforth is twenty-eight; then she was Vic's, and Vic is but Mother doesn't like Vic's age to be mentioned any more, though she is years younger than Stan.

A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson - Lady Betty Across the Water