"A Day's Wait" is a story in which a young boy thinks that his fever of 102 degrees Fahrenheit is fatal. His father is reading to him to help him fall asleep, but the boys says that he would rather stay awake. We later discover that this is because the boy believes he will never wake up. The boy was in France when his peers told him that one could not live with a fever of 44 degrees. Little did the boy know, his peers were talking about a celcius thermometer. When the boy described his situation to his mother, she quotes, "Poor old Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die." The boy's detection of his well-being soothed him into sleep until the morning when he unsurprisingly awoke.
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