...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.

The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.