'Teddy's Coming,' Said Teddy

Laurie says he'll do it by proxy when your grandpa comes. Don't tease, but go home and rest, for you'll be up half the night. March is coming right away, said hannah with an air of relief. Every time the girls met, their pale faces broke into smiles as they hugged one another. But beth lay in that heavy stupor alike, unconscious of hope and joy and danger. All day she lay so only rousing now and then to mutter water with lips so parched they could hardly shape the word.