Little Women

Marmee returns and asks the girls if they will send their Christmas breakfast to the nearby family of immigrants, where a single, sick mother lives with six children without food or firewood. Despite their hunger, the girls agree, and they all walk over to the Hummel family’s home and spend the morning sharing their food and kindness. The Hummel children call the girls “angels,” and the girls are deeply happy to have “loved our neighbor better than ourselves.”