Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

Little Womenchange of heart. Both felt it, and for a minute looked atone another as if that invisible barrier cast a little shadowover them. It was gone directly however, for Laurie said,with a vain attempt at dignity...‘Don’t I look like a married man and the head of afamily?’ ‘Not a bit, and you never will. You’ve grownbigger and bonnier, but you are the same scapegrace asever.’‘Now really, Jo, you ought to treat me with morerespect,’ began Laurie, who enjoyed it all immensely.‘How can I, when the mere idea of you, married andsettled, is so irresistibly funny that I can’t keep sober!’answered Jo, smiling all over her face, so infectiously thatthey had another laugh, and then settled down for a goodtalk, quite in the pleasant old fashion.‘It’s no use your going out in the cold to get Amy, forthey are all coming up presently. I couldn’t wait. I wantedto be the one to tell you the grand surprise, and have ‘firstskim’ as we used to say when we squabbled about thecream.’‘Of course you did, and spoiled your story bybeginning at the wrong end. Now, start right, and tell mehow it all happened. I’m pining to know.’777 of 861