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2nd April

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, I am a BEAST.

Please forget about that dreadful letter I sent you last week— I was feeling terribly lonely and miserable and sore-throaty the night I wrote. 

I didn't know it, but I was just sickening for tonsillitis and grippe and lots of things mixed. 

I'm in the infirmary now, and have been here for six days; this is the first time they would let me sit up and have a pen and paper. 

The head nurse is very bossy. 

But I've been thinking about it all the time and I shan't get well until you forgive me.

Here is a picture of the way I look, with a bandage tied around my head in rabbit's ears. Doesn't that arouse your sympathy? 

I am having sublingual gland swelling. 

And I've been studying physiology all the year without ever hearing 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 badly brought up.

Yours with love, Judy Abbott