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You see the tragedy? Measles, with Lord Andore's party and Rupert's return both fixed for the week after next. No words of mine could do justice to the feelings of the three C. 's. I think, perhaps, on the whole, it was worse for Charles, who was suspected throughout of impending measles, of which he was wholly innocent, his cold being only a rather violent example of the everyday kind. He was kept out of draughts and taken for walks by Mrs. Wilmington and not allowed to bathe, and he became bored beyond description. Really the girls were better off in bed, with a brightening vista of jelly, beef tea, fish, chicken, leading to natural beef and pudding and getting up to breakfast.
When the three were reunited it was the very day of Lord Andore's party, and of course they were not allowed to go, ‘for fear of chills. ' Charles, after tea had been taken away, shut the dining-room door carefully and said: