Don't you dance ?" "Sometimes.

You see I've been abroad a good many years, and haven't been into company enough yet to know how you do things here." "Abroad!" cried Jo.

"Oh, tell me about it! I love dearly to hear people describe their travels." Laurie didn't seem to know where to begin, but Jo's eager questions soon set him going, and he told her how he had been at school in Vevay, where the boys never wore hats and had a fleet of boats on the lake, and for holiday fun went on walking trips about Switzerland with their teachers.
"Don't I wish I'd been there!" cried Jo.

"Did you go to Paris ?" "We spent last winter there." "Can you talk French ?" "We were not allowed to speak anything else at Vevay." "Do say some! I can read it, but can't pronounce." "Quel nom a cette jeune demoiselle en les pantoufles jolis ?" "How nicely you do it! Let me see ...

you said, 'Who is the young lady in the pretty slippers', didn't you ?" "Oui, mademoiselle." "It's my sister Margaret, and you knew it was! Do you think she is pretty ?" "Yes, she makes me think of the German girls, she looks so fresh and quiet, and dances like a lady." Jo quite glowed with pleasure at this boyish praise of her sister, and stored it up to repeat to Meg.