During the afternoon Judy Pineau brought up a tear-blotted note from Sara Ray . Sara had not been allowed to visit the hill farm since Peter had developed measles . She was an unhappy little exile , and could only relieve her anguish of soul by daily letters to Cecily , which the faithful and obliging Judy Pineau brought up for her . These epistles were as gushingly underlined as if Sara had been a correspondent of early Victorian days . Cecily did not write back , because Mrs. Ray had decreed that no letters must be taken down from the hill farm lest they carry infection . Cecily had offered to bake every epistle thoroughly in the oven before sending it ; but Mrs. Ray was inexorable , and Cecily had to content herself by sending long verbal messages with Judy Pineau . `` My OWN DEAREST Cecily , '' ran Sara 's letter . `` I have just heard the sad news about POOR DEAR PETER . I ca n't describe MY FEELINGS . They are DREADFUL . I have been crying ALL THE AFTERNOON . I wish I could FLY to you , but ma will not let me . She is afraid I will catch the measles , but I would rather have the measles A DOZEN TIMES OVER than be sepparated from you all like this . But I have felt , ever since the Judgment Sunday that I MUST OBEY MA BETTER than I used to do . If ANYTHING HAPPENS to Peter and you are let see him BEFORE IT HAPPENS give him MY LOVE and tell him HOW SORRY I AM , and that I hope we will ALL meet in A BETTER WORLD Everything in school is about the same . The master is awful cross by spells . Jimmy Frewen walked home with Nellie Bowan last night from prayer-meeting and HER ONLY FOURTEEN . Do n't you think it horrid BEGINNING SO YOUNG ? YOU AND ME would NEVER do anything like that till we were GROWN UP , would we ? Willy Fraser looks SO LONESOME in school these days .
I must stop for XXXXX says I waste FAR TOO MUCH TIME writing letters .
DOZEN ME anything home letters ma master measles messages oven