So many things happened in those fast-fleeting days and now in retrospect I see them far more clearly than when they were actually happening.

Meg March (Janet Leigh)

10 seconds sound clip from the Little Women (1950) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:31:19 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, show her in! Show her in! Good afternoon.

- Well. Can't you come any closer?

- Yes, sir.

- Now, look at your chin. It's all quivering. But why?

- I came to thank you, sir. I came to thank you.

- Little girl, little girl.

- So many things happened in those fast-fleeting days and now in retrospect I see them far more clearly than when they were actually happening.

- But then, I suppose, all I could think of was John, John Brooke.

- But one event struck all of us... like a bolt of lightning. A telegram from the War Department.

- Well! So your father's in a hospital, eh? Wounded?

- Marmee's packing now, Aunt March, and she sent me to ask for your help.

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