Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

Little WomenAmy preserved a discreet silence, but there was aconscious look in her downcast face that made Laurie situp and say gravely, ‘Now I’m going to play brother, andask questions. May I?’‘I don’t promise to answer.’‘Your face will, if your tongue won’t. You aren’twoman of the world enough yet to hide your feelings, mydear. I heard rumors about Fred and you last year, and it’smy private opinion that if he had not been called home sosuddenly and detained so long, something would havecome of it, hey?’‘That’s not for me to say,’ was Amy’s grim reply, buther lips would smile, and there was a traitorous sparkle ofthe eye which betrayed that she knew her power andenjoyed the knowledge.‘You are not engaged, I hope?’ And Laurie looked veryelder-brotherly and grave all of a sudden.‘No.’‘But you will be, if he comes back and goes properlydown on his knees, won’t you?’‘Very likely.’‘Then you are fond of old Fred?’‘I could be, if I tried.’713 of 861