What had happened to Ruby?
She was even handsomer than ever; but her blue eyes were too bright and lustrous, and the color of her cheeks was hectically brilliant; besides, she was very thin; the hands that held her hymn-book were almost transparent in their delicacy.
"Is Ruby Gillis ill ?" Anne asked of Mrs.Lynde, as they went home from church.
"Ruby Gillis is dying of galloping consumption," said Mrs.Lynde bluntly.

"Everybody knows it except herself and her FAMILY.

They won't give in.

If you ask THEM, she's perfectly well.

She hasn't been able to teach since she had that attack of congestion in the winter, but she says she's going to teach again in the fall, and she's after the White Sands school.