Page 162 - Stay, a one word command or request! From a friend it is a request, and so nice to know they want your company. But most times with friends you know when you have outstayed your welcome. With really good friends some things don't need to be spoken. My best friend of 44 years has been so poorly over the past year that our time together has been limited, I can see she is too tired for company, even without speaking, but hope my visits have helped her. I long for the day she feels well enough to say Stay!

I love these books by Louisa May Alcott, have done since first reading them, tried watching the films but didn't enjoy them as I already had pictures in my head of the characters.