Little women tells the story of the four march sisters as they grow up during the Civil war.The sisters make friends with their neighbor,Laurie,a wealthy young man who lives with his grandfather
Chapter 13 Castles in the Air
Laurie lay luxuriously swinging to and fro in his hammock one warm September afternoon, wondering what his neighbors were about, but too lazy to go and find out. He was in one of his moods, for the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he had shirked his studies, tried Mr.Brooke's patience to the utmost, displeased his grandfather by practicing half the afternoon, frightened and maidservants half out of their wits by mischievously hinting the one of his dogs was going mad,and,after high words with the stableman about some fancied neglect of his horse, he had flung himself into his hammock to fume over the stupidity of the world in general, till the peace of the lovely day quieted him in spite of himself. Staring up into the green gloom of the horse-chestnut trees above him, he dreamed dreams of all sorts, and was just imagining himself tossing on the ocean in a voyage round the world, when the sound of voices brought him ashore in a flash. Peeping through the meshes of the hammock, he saw the Marches coming out, as if bound on some expedition.