"I think I am tired now, Preston. I'll go another time," said Daisy.
"Daisy, I want you now. Come! come!—I want you to go now, this minute."
"But I do not feel like a walk, Preston. I can't go till I have had my dinner."
Preston looked imploringly at the doctor, towards whom Daisy was now mounting the steps. It is safe to say that the doctor would willingly have been spared his present task.
"Where have you been now, Daisy?" he said.
Daisy's face brightened into its usual smile at sight of him. "I have been to Crum Elbow, Dr. Sandford."
"Suppose you go a little further and have luncheon with Mrs. Sandford and me? It will not take us long to get to it."
"Does mamma say so, Dr. Sandford?"
"Yes."
"Then I will be ready in a moment."