"Then Daisy's uncommonly good," said Cora.
"Yes, she is," replied Lily; "and I s'pose everybody ought to be uncommonly good and never say them."
Cora laughed again.
"Everybody must mind their p's and q's before you: mustn't they, Lily?" and away she ran to her music lesson.
"Here's the cushion," said Rosie Pierson, running out from the school-room. "I found it in the closet under the shelf where those careless big girls left it, I s'pose."
The cushion was put behind Lily's shoulders, but still the little queen fidgeted on her throne and declared she was not yet "comfortal."
"'Cause if I lean back against the cushion my feet won't touch the stool," she said.
"We'll put something else on the stool to make it higher," said Nettie Prime, who was trying to arrange Lily satisfactorily: "what shall we take? Oh, I know. Daisy, run and bring the big Bible off Miss Collins' table for Lily to put her feet on."
Daisy, who made a motion to start forward as Nettie began to speak, stood still when she heard what she called for.