`` Oh , yes , '' Cecily had assured him . `` The Bible is always the same . '' `` I thought maybe they 'd got some new improvements on it since Aunt Jane 's day , '' said Peter , relieved . `` Sara Ray is coming along the lane , and she 's crying , '' announced Dan , who was peering out of a knot-hole on the opposite side of the loft . `` Sara Ray is crying half her time , '' said Cecily impatiently . `` I 'm sure she cries a quartful of tears a month . There are times when you ca n't help crying . But I hide then . Sara just goes and cries in public . '' The lachrymose Sara presently joined us and we discovered the cause of her tears to be the doleful fact that her mother had forbidden her to go to the magic lantern show that night . We all showed the sympathy we felt . `` She SAID yesterday you could go , '' said the Story Girl indignantly . `` Why has she changed her mind ? '' `` Because of the measles in Markdale , '' sobbed Sara . `` She says Markdale is full of them , and there 'll be sure to be some of the Markdale people at the show . So I 'm not to go . And I 've never seen a magic lantern -- I 've never seen ANYTHING . '' `` I do n't believe there 's any danger of catching measles , '' said Felicity . `` If there was we would n't be allowed to go . '' `` I wish I COULD get the measles , '' said Sara defiantly .
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