Geoff's Little Sister by Evelyn R. Garratt

Geoffrey could not fail to acknowledge to himself that after all, Nurse / had been wise in putting Dodie into a frock with high neck and long / sleeves, for the winter was unusually severe.

Snow lay for several days some inches thick in the garden, and though / the boys enjoyed the snowballing well enough, and were able to keep / themselves thoroughly warm, little Dodie seemed to feel the cold very / acutely, and often came in from her daily walk crying from the pain of / freezing fingers.