Tennis Shoes
“They looked as if they would be particularly good. There were quite a lot of invitations to parties. There were tickets for the pantomime, from grandfather. There was an enormous pile of unopened parcels in the hall.
Jim had not taken a great deal of interest in the Christmas rush. He came home with a cold which made him feel simply rotten. He hoped it would get better, but it did not. On Christmas Eve his temperature went up. By that night he had measles.
Measles is always a hateful thing to h...ave. Jim thought nobody could be more miserable than he was on Christmas Day. He was wrong. By the third of January Susan was so ill that she ceased to care what anybody did to her. They could wash her, make her swallow things, turn her over, and she just gave in, too wretched to resist. Two days after that Nicky started a most suspicious cold, which was clearly measles by the next afternoon. Even while they were deciding Nicky was certainly a case Pinny heard David give a cough.
‘I don’t like the sound of that,’ she said.MoreLess
Jim had not taken a great deal of interest in the Christmas rush. He came home with a cold which made him feel simply rotten. He hoped it would get better, but it did not. On Christmas Eve his temperature went up. By that night he had measles.
Measles is always a hateful thing to h...ave. Jim thought nobody could be more miserable than he was on Christmas Day. He was wrong. By the third of January Susan was so ill that she ceased to care what anybody did to her. They could wash her, make her swallow things, turn her over, and she just gave in, too wretched to resist. Two days after that Nicky started a most suspicious cold, which was clearly measles by the next afternoon. Even while they were deciding Nicky was certainly a case Pinny heard David give a cough.
‘I don’t like the sound of that,’ she said.MoreLess
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