Jo wanted to lay her head down on that motherly bosom , and cry her grief and anger all away , but tears were an unmanly weakness , and she felt so deeply injured that she really could n't quite forgive yet . So she winked hard , shook her head , and said gruffly because Amy was listening , `` It was an abominable thing , and she does n't deserve to be forgiven . '' With that she marched off to bed , and there was no merry or confidential gossip that night . Amy was much offended that her overtures of peace had been repulsed , and began to wish she had not humbled herself , to feel more injured than ever , and to plume herself on her superior virtue in a way which was particularly exasperating . Jo still looked like a thunder cloud , and nothing went well all day . It was bitter cold in the morning , she dropped her precious turnover in the gutter , Aunt March had an attack of the fidgets , Meg was sensitive , Beth would look grieved and wistful when she got home , and Amy kept making remarks about people who were always talking about being good and yet would n't even try when other people set them a virtuous example . `` Everybody is so hateful , I 'll ask Laurie to go skating . He is always kind and jolly , and will put me to rights , I know , '' said Jo to herself , and off she went . Amy heard the clash of skates , and looked out with an impatient exclamation . `` There ! She promised I should go next time , for this is the last ice we shall have . But it 's no use to ask such a crosspatch to take me . '' `` Do n't say that . You were very naughty , and it is hard to forgive the loss of her precious little book , but I think she might do it now , and I guess she will , if you try her at the right minute , '' said Meg . `` Go after them . Do n't say anything till Jo has got good-natured with Laurie , than take a quiet minute and just kiss her , or do some kind thing , and I 'm sure she 'll be friends again with all her heart . '' `` I 'll try , '' said Amy , for the advice suited her , and after a flurry to get ready , she ran after the friends , who were just disappearing over the hill . It was not far to the river , but both were ready before Amy reached them . Jo saw her coming , and turned her back . Laurie did not see , for he was carefully skating along the shore , sounding the ice , for a warm spell had preceded the cold snap .
`` I 'll go on to the first bend , and see if it 's all right before we begin to race , '' Amy heard him XXXXX , as he shot away , looking like a young Russian in his fur-trimmed coat and cap .
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