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`` You always do the child good , and she will have something pleasant to look forward to during the day . '' Miss Reynolds enjoyed her breakfast , which she ate with perfect ease . Then she said she would like to be left alone to rest until noon , when Katherine might bring her a light dinner -- `` provided her breakfast did not hurt her . '' Katherine pinned upon her door a slip of paper on which was written `` not to be disturbed '' ; then went away to her own duties , which would be over at noon , it being Saturday and a half holiday . After eating her own dinner , she arranged a generous and tempting meal on a tray and took it to her teacher 's room . She found her up and dressed in her wrapper and seated in a comfortable rocker , reading `` Science and Health , '' which she had left lying on the table . Miss Reynolds looked up and nodded brightly as she laid down the book .