All the doors were closed in the corridor above and on the ward room door hung a sign, "No Admittance."
"She must be quite ill," whispered Molly.
"She has a taking disease," answered Otoyo. "Like this." And she puffed out both jaws to the roundness of the full moon.
Molly stifled a laugh.
"Mumps, do you mean?"
Otoyo nodded.
"It was so called to me by the honorable nurse," she added gravely.
The two girls lingered a moment in the hall. Molly was opposed to rapping on the Professor's door, but Otoyo, amiably but unswervingly persistent in attaining her ends, gently tapped on the door.
"Come in," called Professor Green's voice, weak almost beyond recognition.
Otoyo peeped into the room.