We'll take turns reading to her and entertaining her, for she stayed hours with us in that dark room when she could have been outdoors enjoying herself." "That is probably the reason she is laid up now," answered the doctor.
"She should have kept entirely away from you." "But she had had one case," explained Mrs.Sherman, "and we never dreamed of her having another.

Poor little thing! I hope this will be light.

She had a hard time before, so we must make a regular frolic of this, girls." "Well, no, madam, at least not for several days," said the doctor, gravely, "And you must be extremely careful about her eyes.

They seem to be badly affected, and I must warn you that they are really in danger." They told Betty that afterward, thinking it would stop her crying, when everything else failed to do so, if she realised how necessary it was for her not to inflame them with her tears.

Usually she was a sensible little body, obedient to the slightest suggestion, but now she lay curled up in a disconsolate little heap in bed, sobbing as if her heart would break.
"Oh, I don't want to have the measles!" she sobbed, catching her breath in great gasps.