第17章

4月2日

亲爱的长腿叔叔：

我是头禽兽。

请忘记我上星期寄给您的那封可怕的信——写信的那天晚上，我觉得非常孤独而且不舒服，喉咙还隐隐作痛。我不晓得自己得了扁桃体炎和流行感冒，还有各种其他的病也一起来了。我现在在病房里，而且已经在这里住了6天了，这是他们第一次让我坐起来，还给我纸笔。护士很凶，不过我一直不停在想着，如果您不原谅我，我都好不起来了。

我现在的模样是，一块布绕过我的头，打个大结。

这样您会有点同情吗？

我不能写了，坐得太久会感觉有点虚弱。请原谅我的恶劣和不知感激。我以前就没有家教。

您充满爱的，茱蒂·亚伯特

2 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 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