"As for the very recent absences," Madeline continued, "I am sure you must have heard how ill I have been. You remember the cold Wednesday we had two weeks ago? I sat right beside the open window in English Essayists, and that night I came down with pneumonia. I am much better now--quite out of danger, the doctor says,--but he insists on my trying a warmer climate this winter. So I am off for Arizona to-morrow. I shall be very sorry to leave Harding, particularly your classes. I find the lectures anything but dull.