It's not that." "Did you see the oculist?
What did he say ?" asked Anne anxiously.
"Yes, I saw him.

He examined my eyes.

He says that if I give up all reading and sewing entirely and any kind of work that strains the eyes, and if I'm careful not to cry, and if I wear the glasses he's given me he thinks my eyes may not get any worse and my headaches will be cured.
But if I don't he says I'll certainly be stone-blind in six months.
Blind! Anne, just think of it!" For a minute Anne, after her first quick exclamation of dismay, was silent.

It seemed to her that she could NOT speak.

Then she said bravely, but with a catch in her voice: "Marilla, DON'T think of it.