`` You ca n't live on friends , try it and see how cool they 'll grow . He has n't any business , has he ? '' `` Not yet . Mr. Laurence is going to help him . '' `` That wo n't last long . James Laurence is a crotchety old fellow and not to be depended on . So you intend to marry a man without money , position , or business , and go on working harder than you do now , when you might be comfortable all your days by minding me and doing better ? I thought you had more sense , Meg . '' `` I could n't do better if I waited half my life ! John is good and wise , he 's got heaps of talent , he 's willing to work and sure to get on , he 's so energetic and brave . Everyone likes and respects him , and I 'm proud to think he cares for me , though I 'm so poor and young and silly , '' said Meg , looking prettier than ever in her earnestness . `` He knows you have got rich relations , child . That 's the secret of his liking , I suspect . '' `` Aunt March , how dare you say such a thing ? John is above such meanness , and I wo n't listen to you a minute if you talk so , '' cried Meg indignantly , forgetting everything but the injustice of the old lady 's suspicions . `` My John would n't marry for money , any more than I would . We are willing to work and we mean to wait . I 'm not afraid of being poor , for I 've been happy so far , and I know I shall be with him because he loves me , and I. . . '' Meg stopped there , remembering all of a sudden that she had n't made up her mind , that she had told ` her John ' to go away , and that he might be overhearing her inconsistent remarks .
Aunt March was very angry , for she had set her heart on having her pretty niece make a fine match , and something in the girl 's happy young face XXXXX the lonely old woman feel both sad and sour .
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