`` Do you think Meg cares for him ? '' asked Mrs. March , with an anxious look . `` Mercy me ! I do n'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 . I forbid him to do it , but he does n't mind me as he ought . '' `` Then you fancy that Meg is not interested in John ? '' `` Who ? '' cried Jo , staring . `` Mr. Brooke . I call him ` John ' now . We fell into the way of doing so at the hospital , and he likes it . '' `` Oh , dear ! I know you 'll take his part . He 's been good to Father , and you wo n't send him away , but let Meg marry him , if she wants to . Mean thing ! To go petting Papa and helping you , just to wheedle you into liking him . ''
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