UNIQUE LOVE-MAKING.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 13, 26 March 1892, Page 307

UNIQUE LOVE-MAKING.

Here is a romantic anecdote about Louisa Alcott’s father and mother. As a young man, Mr Alcott, so the story goes, was ainanuenis or secretary to Mrs Alcott’s father. The two young people met often, and naturally fell in love with each other. Mr Alcott’s social position and prospects being somewhat uncertain at the time, he did not feel justified in asking this well born and talented young woman to marry him. He finally gave up his position anil they parted with no confession on either side. It was agreed, however, that each should keep a journal, and that these journals should beexchanged oncein so often. Thus matters wenton for sometime, heunwilling to asksomuch andofferso little, she willing to give all, and chafing under a woman's necessity of keeping silent. At length one day, while reading the journal he had sent her, she came across a few sentences in which he hinted at his love and unhappiness, and wondered what she would say if he should ever presume to ask her hand in marriage. The moment was a critical one, but Mis Alcott was equal to it. Seizing a pen quickly and clearly she wrote underneath : ‘ Supposing you ask her and find out?’ It is said that the journal is still preserved in the Aleott family.