“What’s the matter, Schatz?”

　　“I’ve got a headache.”

　　“You’d better go back to bed.”

　　“No, I am all right.”

　　“You go to bed. I’ll see you when I’m dressed.”

　　But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.

　　“You go up to bed,” I said, “You are sick.”

　　“I’m all right,” he said.

　　When the doctor came he took the boy’s temperature.

　　“What is it?” I asked him.

　　“One hundred and two degree.”

　　Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them. The germs of influenza(流感) can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic(传染病) of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia(肺炎).

　　Back in the room I wrote the boy’s temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.

　　“Do you want me to read to you?”

　　“All right. If you want to,” said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed.

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