CHAPTER FIFTEEN 

A TELEGRAM 

"November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. 

"That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose. 

"If something very pleasant should happen now, we should think it a delightful month," said Beth, who took a hopeful view of everything, even November. 

"I dare say, but nothing pleasant ever does happen in this family," said Meg, who was out of sorts. "We go grubbing along day after day, without a bit of change, and very little fun. We might as well be in a treadmill." 

"My patience, how blue we are!" cried Jo. "I don't much wonder, poor dear, for you see other girls having splendid times, while you grind, grind, year in and year out. Oh, don't I wish I could manage things for you as I do for my heroines! You're pretty enough and good enough already, so I'd have some rich relation leave you a fortune unexpectedly. Then you'd dash out as an heiress, scorn everyone who has slighted you, go abroad, and come home my Lady Something in a blaze of splendor and elegance." 

"People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays, men have to work and women marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world," said Meg bitterly. 

"Jo and I are going to make fortunes for you all. Just wait ten years, and see if we don't," said Amy, who sat in a corner making mud pies, as Hannah called her little clay models of birds, fruit, and faces.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Whose nose had a blot?
2. Who had a blemish on their nose?
3. 
Q2:
1. What is the month?
2. What month does the passage take place in?
3. 
Q3:
1. Who was born in November?
2. Whose birthday is in November?
3. 
Q4:
1. What was the name of the person making pies?
2. Who was playing with the mud forming it into pies?
3. 
Q5:
1. What did Amy say she was going to make?
2. What did Amy vow to create?
3. 
Q6:
1. Who did Amy say she would make fortunes with?
2. In whose company did Amy vow to make lots of money?
3. 
Q7:
1. Who thought things were going to go well?
2. Who envisioned a happy world?
3. 
Q8:
1. Did Meg think that things always went well for the family?
2. Was Meg of the opinion that the family always had good fortune?
3. 
Q9:
1. What did Meg say that the family might as well be in?
2. In Meg's opinion, what should very well be the state of the family?
3. 
Q10:
1. Who did Meg believe has to work?
2. In Meg's opinion, who needed to work?
3. 
Q11:
1. What did Meg think women should do?
2. In Meg's opinion, what was the role of a woman?
3. 
Q12:
1. Do people continue to receive fortunes?
2. Is getting an inheritance still something that happens to most people?
3. 
Q13:
1. Who desired a fortune to be left to her friends?
2. Who hoped for her friends to receive a fortune?
3. 
Q14:
1. In what location did Margaret stand up?
2. Where could Margaret be found in a standing position?
3. 
Q15:
1. What was Margaret looking at?
2. What did Margaret have her gaze fixed upon?
3. 
