"I won't scold, Miss Carewe. I guess I'm a good deal to blame. She didn't have any mother, and I was pretty busy, and nobody paid much attention to what she was doing and reading and thinking. I just gave her money and thought I'd done all that was necessary; but I expect the carpet business could have got along without me occasionally, and I could have known my girl a little better." They climbed the stairs together, but Belinda left him at his daughter's door. When she went up, later, with the doctor Mr. Wilson looked more at ease in the world than usual, and Adelina's face was cheerful, though grotesquely swollen from much crying. "Papa and I are going to Europe for the summer, Miss Carewe," she called out excitedly. Then, as she saw the doctor, her dramatic habit reasserted itself, and she fell into one of her most cherished death-scene poses, looking as limp and forlorn as circumstances and a lack of rehearsal would permit. With melancholy languor she held out her hand to the doctor. He took it, felt her pulse, looked her over quickly and keenly. "Measles," he said crisply. "You'd better look out for the other girls, Miss Carewe." Adelina sank back in her pillows with a sigh of profound despair. "I might have known I wouldn't have anything romantic," she said with gloomy resignation. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: Some of the illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so they correspond to the text, thus the page number of the illustration might no longer matches the page number in the List of Illustrations. Repeated chapter titles have been deleted. The first letter of each chapter had a drop cap, which is not reproduced here. Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_) On page 20, "Belinda's enthusiasm are" was replaced with "Belinda's enthusiasm is". On page 21, the quotation mark after "what shall I do?" was deleted. On page 20, a quotation mark was added after "her next engagement." and another quotation mark was added before "There's the evening study bell". On page 33, a quotation mark was added after "is simply elegant,". On page 33, the comma after "earls are English" was replaced with a period. On page 34, a quotation mark was added after "she's positively mushy." On page 37, the double quotation mark after "Mr. Satterly" was replaced with a single quotation mark. On page 50, a quotation mark was added after "beast of a Frenchman.". On page 56, a quotation mark was added after "if----if I----". On page 63, "preparatoy" was replaced with "preparatory". On page 76, "smpathy" was replaced with "sympathy". On page 89, a quotation mark was added before "Yes; it's a long time". On page 111, "your poor child" was replaced with "you poor child", and the quotation mark was deleted before "With a little sob". On page 122, "some one" was replaced with "someone". On page 164, the [oe] ligature was replaced with "oe".