"I don't know whether there can be such little soldiers," said
Daisy. "If there can be, I am."
"And what fighting do you expect to do, little one?"
"I don't know," said Daisy. "Not very well."
"What enemies are you going to face?"
But Daisy only looked rather hard at the Captain, and made him no answer.
"Do you expect to emulate the charge of the Light Brigade, in some tilt against fancied wrong?"
Daisy looked at her friend; she did not quite understand him, but his last words were intelligible.
"I don't know," she said, meekly. "But if I do, it will not be because the order is a mistake, Captain Drummond."
The Captain bit his lip. "Daisy," said he, "are you the only soldier in the family?"
Daisy sat still, looking up over the sunny slopes of ground towards the house.