Meg has profited from Marmee's words after her return from spending a fortnight at the Moffat's. During her stay there, she yad been made to feel that her own clothes were inappropriate for attending parties of the Moffat's circle, and she is dressed p and made up to attend a party where she dos not feel well integrated, having heard some converstions regarding her poor station and some gossip attributing to her mother plans to marry her off to rich Theodore Lawrence, the March's neighbor, and decides to ignore everything and have fun, whereby she has a little too much champagne to drink. After her return home, she appreciates her simple home where love abounds. Mrs. March tells her that whee there is love, poverty is no obstacle to a happy marriage. Eventually, meg marries Theodore Laurence's teacher John Brooke, who is poor but very much in love with her.