The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.
Is it not meningitis?
I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.
I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.