 Christy becomes concerned when Becky O Teale stops showing up for school. Upon searching for her Christy finds her hiding beneath the school house because the light hurts her eyes. Christy takes her directly to Dr. MacNeil with not regard for an oncoming storm. Dr. MacNeil s diagnosis is that Becky has advanced trachoma, and although he has studied the disease throughly he has doubts that he can cure her. In a side-plot, Miss Alice expresses her displeasure with the attentions Dr. MacNeil has been paying to Christy and Fairlight and Jeb Spencer have a disagreement over matters of money.