4/22 And now I'm dabbling my fingers in the spring down in the old stone spring house, and standing on the cold, wet rocks in my bare feet. And the frost on the window-panes--oh, if I could only lay my face against the cold glass now, how good it would feel!" Eugenia could bear no more. She turned away from the door, and, meeting Mrs.Sherman on the threshold of her room, threw herself into her arms, sobbing: "Oh, Cousin Elizabeth, I can't stand it. If Betty goes blind it will be all my fault! She never would have had the measles if it hadn't been for me. But I would go, and I made the others go, too. |