"Nothing else. Geography is enough at once."
"Oh, no, it isn't. Preston, I can't do the least little bit of a sum in the world."
"Can't you? Well I don't see that that is of any very great consequence. What sums do you want to do?"
"But I want to know how."
"Why?"
"Why, Preston, you know I ought to know how. It might be very useful, and I ought to know."
"I hope it will never be of any use to you," said Preston; "but you can learn the multiplication table if you like."
"Then will you show it to me?"
"Yes; but what has put you in such a fever of study, little
Daisy? It excites me, this hot weather."
"Then won't you come in and show me the multiplication table now, Preston?"