2nd April
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,
I am a BEAST.
Please forget about that dreadful letter I sent you last week--I wasfeeling terribly lonely and miserable and sore-throaty the night Iwrote. I didn't know it, but I was just sickening for tonsillitis andgrippe and lots of things mixed. I'm in the infirmary now, and havebeen here for six days; this is the first time they would let me sit upand have a pen and paper. The head nurse is very bossy. But I've beenthinking about it all the time and I shan't get well until you forgiveme.
Here is a picture of the way I look, with a bandage tied around my headin rabbit's ears.
Doesn't that arouse your sympathy? I am having sublingual glandswelling. And I've been studying physiology all the year without everhearing of sublingual glands. How futile a thing is education!
I can't write any more; I get rather shaky when I sit up too long.Please forgive me for being impertinent and ungrateful. I was badlybrought up.
Yours with love, Judy Abbott