She's Dick's girl.

And you have to tie the ribbon of your bestest girl on your bridle.

That's why," he added, with belated gallantry, "I tie my own mamma's ribbons on mine.

And," he returned with terrible directness to the real issue, "Jo's Dick's girl, 'cause he said so.

I heard him tell Jim Felton she's his steady, all right--and you are his girl, ain't you, Jo ?" His mother had tried at first to stop him, had given up in despair, and was now sitting in a rather tragic calm, waiting for what might come of his speech.
Josephine might have saved herself some anxious moments, if she had been so minded; perhaps she would have been minded, if she had not caught Ford's eyes fixed rather intently upon her, and sensed the expectancy in them.