This is Christmas Day, and they will be glad to hear you are better.

But really you mustn't talk, please." "Tell the fellows to go home, then," I said, "and wish them a Merry Christmas, and say--" "Really, old man," pleaded Harrison, looking quite frightened, "don't talk." That was the quietest, but not the least hopeful Christmas Day I ever spent.
And when Draven's met again next term, I fancy most of us had got by heart the good Christmas motto, "Goodwill to men," and were mutually agreed that, whatever manly and noble sports we should engage in during the year, boycotting should not be one of them..