" Mother, are you angry when you fold your lips tight together and go out of the room sometimes, when Aunt March scolds or people worry you? " asked Jo, feeling nearer and dearer to her mother than ever before.
" Paul, " said Chett, before the big man got too angry, " when they find the old man lying in a pool of blood with his throat slit, they won't need no bird to tell them someone killed him" .