Introduction

For a year, jo and her professor worked and waited, hoped and loved. They met occasionally and wrote such voluminous letters that the rise in the price of paper was accounted for. The second year began rather soberly, for their prospects did not brighten,. And aunt march died suddenly. But when their first sorrow was over, they found that they had cause for rejoicing, for she had left plumfield to jo - which made all sorts of joyful things possible. It's an immense house and will take a power of money to keep it in order. I want to open a school for little lads, a good, happy, homelike school, with me to take