I hesitated, and he waited. How was I to tell him? He would
simply find it ridiculous. And then I thought—"If any of you suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed."
"I thought I should be comfortable in these things, Dr. Sandford," I then said, glancing at the little chinchilla cap which lay on the table;—"and respectable. And there were other people who needed all the money the other things would have cost."
"What other people?" said the doctor. "As I am your guardian, Daisy, it is proper for me to ask, and not impertinent."
I hesitated again. "I was thinking," I said, "of some of the people I left at Magnolia."
"Do you mean the servants?"
"Yes, sir."
"Daisy, they are cared for."
I was silent.
"What do you think they want?"