From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:

This is the first day of school but I can’t go back yet. Grandmother says not to mind, when I start again she will get Miss Jackson to come here every afternoon to help me so I won’t have to be frightened at the blackboard when I do my numbers. Miss Comagy went away today and I am all better, but I can’t go back to school for two weeks.

Hilda does not write on August 27 and will return on August 28.