CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 

LITTLE FAITHFUL 

For a week the amount of virtue in the old house would have supplied the neighborhood. It was really amazing, for everyone seemed in a heavenly frame of mind, and self-denial was all the fashion. Relieved of their first anxiety about their father, the girls insensibly relaxed their praiseworthy efforts a little, and began to fall back into old ways. They did not forget their motto, but hoping and keeping busy seemed to grow easier, and after such tremendous exertions, they felt that Endeavor deserved a holiday, and gave it a good many. 

Jo caught a bad cold through neglect to cover the shorn head enough, and was ordered to stay at home till she was better, for Aunt March didn't like to hear people read with colds in their heads. Jo liked this, and after an energetic rummage from garret to cellar, subsided on the sofa to nurse her cold with arsenicum and books. Amy found that housework and art did not go well together, and returned to her mud pies. Meg went daily to her pupils, and sewed, or thought she did, at home, but much time was spent in writing long letters to her mother, or reading the Washington dispatches over and over. Beth kept on, with only slight relapses into idleness or grieving. 

All the little duties were faithfully done each day, and many of her sisters' also, for they were forgetful, and the house seemed like a clock whose pendulum was gone a-visiting. When her heart got heavy with longings for Mother or fears for Father, she went away into a certain closet, hid her face in the folds of a dear old gown, and made her little moan and prayed her little prayer quietly by herself. Nobody knew what cheered her up after a sober fit, but everyone felt how sweet and helpful Beth was, and fell into a way of going to her for comfort or advice in their small affairs.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who was a little under the weather?
2. Who had a cold?
3. Who was just a bit sick?
Q2:
1. How did Jo get sick?
2. How did Jo catch a cold?
3. What did Jo do to become a bit ill?
Q3:
1. What was the name of the girl making pies?
2. Who was creating little pies?
3. Who formed sorts of pies?
Q4:
1. What kind of pies did Amy make?
2. What were the nature of Amy's pies?
3. What were the pies that Amy was making?
Q5:
1. Who would retreat into the closet?
2. What was the name of the girl that would go into the closet?
3. Who used to shut herself in the closet?
Q6:
1. Why did Beth go in the closet?
2. What would Beth do in the closet?
3. What was Beth's business in the closet?
Q7:
1. Did anyone know how to cheer Beth up?
2. Could anyone figure out how to elevate Beth's mood?
3. Was it clear to anyone how to make Beth feel better?
Q8:
1. For what reason would others go looking for Beth?
2. Why would the others search for Beth?
3. What was everyone else's reason for trying to find Beth?
Q9:
1. Who made the girls feel anxious?
2. Who provoqued feelings of anxiety within the girls?
3. Who had the girls in nervous moods?
Q10:
1. Who was a vacation earned by?
2. Who deserved to take a vacation?
3. Who merited taking some time off?
