I should have shut the door in his face if he had," said Jo, settling herself on the floor at her mother's feet.

"Last summer Meg left a pair of gloves over at the Laurences' and only one was returned.
We forgot about it, till Teddy told me that Mr.Brooke owned that he liked Meg but didn't dare say so, she was so young and he so poor.
Now, isn't it a dreadful state of things ?" "Do you think Meg cares for him ?" asked Mrs.March, with an anxious look.
"Mercy me! I don't know anything about love and such nonsense!" cried Jo, with a funny mixture of interest and contempt.

"In novels, the girls show it by starting and blushing, fainting away, growing thin, and acting like fools.

Now Meg does not do anything of the sort.

She eats and drinks and sleeps like a sensible creature, she looks straight in my face when I talk about that man, and only blushes a little bit when Teddy jokes about lovers.