4月2日

親愛的長腿叔叔：

我是頭禽獸。

請忘記我上星期寄給您的那封可怕的信——寫信的那天晚上，我覺得非常孤獨而且不舒服，喉嚨還隱隱作痛。我不曉得自己得了扁桃體炎和流行感冒，還有各種其他的病也一起來了。我現在在病房里，而且已經在這里住了6天了，這是他們第一次讓我坐起來，還給我紙筆。護士很兇，不過我一直不停在想著，如果您不原諒我，我都好不起來了。

我現在的模樣是，一塊布繞過我的頭，打個大結。

這樣您會有點同情嗎？

我不能寫了，坐得太久會感覺有點虛弱。請原諒我的惡劣和不知感激。我以前就沒有家教。

您充滿愛的，茱蒂·亞伯特

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