"Oh! Well, Daisy, after philosophy and mathematics have both had their turn, what then?—when breakfast is over."
"Oh, they have two or three more turns in the course of the day," I said. "Astronomy comes after breakfast; then Smith's 'Wealth of Nations;' then chemistry. Then I have a long history lesson to recite; then French. After dinner we have natural philosophy, and physical geography and mathematics; and then we have generally done."
"And then what is left of you goes to walk," said the doctor.
"No, not very often now," I said. "I don't know why—Miss Pinshon has very much given up walking of late."
"Then what becomes of you?"
"I do not often want to do much of anything," I said. "To-day I came here."
"With a book," said the doctor. "Is it work or play?"
"My history lesson," I said, showing the book. "I had not quite time enough at home."
"How much of a lesson, for instance?" said the doctor, taking the book and turning over the leaves.
"I had to make a synopsis of the state of Europe from the third century to the tenth—synchronising the events and the names."