"How old are you, Daphne?"
"Please, sir, I'm eight next birthday."
"Why, you're quite a big girl, Daphne! Do you go to school?"
"Oh, yes, sir. I'm in the second form."
"Do you like going to school, Daphne?"
"Yes, sir."
"I suppose you like going to the Zoo better? Did you like going with father the other day?"
The child's eyes sparkled with retrospective pleasure.
"Oh, yes," she said, delightedly. "We saw all kinds of things: lions and tigers, and elephants. I had a ride on a elephant"—her eyes grew big with the memory—"an' 'e took a bun with his long nose out of my hand."
"That was splendid, Daphne! Which did you like best—the Zoo or the pictures?"