1 "The doctor to see you, sir," and the maid beckoned as she spoke.
2 I just sat and held it softly till Mrs. Hummel came with the doctor.
3 Before the girls could believe the happy truth, the doctor came to confirm it.
4 Beth did have the fever, and was much sicker than anyone but Hannah and the doctor suspected.
5 Jo disgraced herself by nearly fainting away, and had to be doctored by Laurie in the china closet.
6 The doctor had been in to say that some change, for better or worse, would probably take place about midnight, at which time he would return.
7 Meg and Jo came running down to behold the miracle which had been wrought, and Amy, feeling very precious and self-sacrificing, promised to go, if the doctor said Beth was going to be ill.
8 So I got grandpa to say it was high time we did something, and off I pelted to the office yesterday, for the doctor looked sober, and Hannah most took my head off when I proposed a telegram.
9 Mr. March told how he had longed to surprise them, and how, when the fine weather came, he had been allowed by his doctor to take advantage of it, how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.