Daisy lifted her wise little face, which indeed looked as if it were heavy with something beside wisdom, towards her friend; she was not ready with an answer.
"You aren't going to die on the field of battle yet, Daisy?" he said, half lightly, and half he knew not why.
It brought a rush of colour to the child's face; the self- possession must have been great which kept her from giving way to further expression of feeling. She answered with curious calmness, "I don't think I shall, Captain Drummond."
The Captain saw it was a bad time to get anything from her, and he moved away. Preston came the next minute.
"Why, Daisy," he whispered, drawing his chair close, "where have you been all day? No getting a sight of you. What have you been about?"
"I have been to Crum Elbow this afternoon."
"Yes, and how late you stayed. Why did you?"
"Loupe lost a shoe. I had to wait for Sam to go to the blacksmith's with him."
"Really. Did you wait in the road?"
"No. I had a place to wait."