We heard you were ill and mother wanted to come to see you.

Father wouldn't let her.

He thought it might be measles and he is afraid of catching things." "Yes," replied Godfrey without surprise.

"It wasn't measles, but if it had been you might have caught them, so of course he was right to be careful." "Oh! he wasn't thinking of me or Mummy, he was thinking of himself," blurted out Isobel with the candour of youth.
"Big, strong men don't catch measles," said Godfrey in mild astonishment.
"He says they do, and that they are very dangerous when you are grown up.

Why are you alone here, and what are you working at ?" "My father has kept me in as a punishment because I did my sums wrong.
The other boys have gone out bird-nesting, but I have to stop here until I get them right.