When Jo returns home, she discovers that Beth's health is failing. Her fears are confirmed with Beth declines to go on a trip to the mountains. She asks Jo if they can stay closer to home and go the seashore instead.
At the seashore, Beth tells Jo the secret she alluded to in Chapter 28, as she is dying and has come to accept it. Her tears when she saw Laurie from the window came because she saw in him a vitality she knew she was slowly losing.
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