You are so changed , I sometimes think -- '' there Amy stopped , with a half-timid , half-wistful look , more significant than her unfinished speech . Laurie saw and understood the affectionate anxiety which she hesitated to express , and looking straight into her eyes , said , just as he used to say it to her mother , `` It 's all right , ma'am . '' That satisfied her and set at rest the doubts that had begun to worry her lately . It also touched her , and she showed that it did , by the cordial tone in which she said ... `` I 'm glad of that ! I did n't think you 'd been a very bad boy , but I fancied you might have wasted money at that wicked Baden-Baden , lost your heart to some charming Frenchwoman with a husband , or got into some of the scrapes that young men seem to consider a necessary part of a foreign tour . Do n't stay out there in the sun , come and lie on the grass here and ` let us be friendly ' , as Jo used to say when we got in the sofa corner and told secrets . '' Laurie obediently threw himself down on the turf , and began to amuse himself by sticking daisies into the ribbons of Amy 's hat , that lay there . `` I 'm all ready for the secrets . '' and he glanced up with a decided expression of interest in his eyes . `` I 've none to tell . You may begin . '' `` Have n't one to bless myself with . I thought perhaps you 'd had some news from home . . '' `` You have heard all that has come lately . Do n't you hear often ? I fancied Jo would send you volumes . '' `` She 's very busy . I 'm roving about so , it 's impossible to be regular , you know . When do you begin your great work of art , Raphaella ? ''
he asked , changing the subject abruptly after another pause , in which he had been wondering if XXXXX knew his secret and wanted to talk about it .
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