Can I do it ?" asked Beth, a few weeks after that eventful call of his.
"Yes, dear.

It will please him very much, and be a nice way of thanking him.

The girls will help you about them, and I will pay for the making up," replied Mrs.March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests because she so seldom asked anything for herself.
After many serious discussions with Meg and Jo, the pattern was chosen, the materials bought, and the slippers begun.

A cluster of grave yet cheerful pansies on a deeper purple ground was pronounced very appropriate and pretty, and Beth worked away early and late, with occasional lifts over hard parts.

She was a nimble little needlewoman, and they were finished before anyone got tired of them.