"Why not?"
"I can't fulfil the conditions." Daisy spoke again after waiting a minute.
"Don't you mean to sing?"
Every time Daisy waited.—"I can't, papa."
"Your mother will require it."
Silence, only Mr. Randolph saw that the child's breath went and came under excitement.
"Daisy, she will require it."
"Yes, papa"—was said rather faintly.
"And I think you must do it."
No response from Daisy; and no sign of yielding.