"What business have you with a child who is not a fit companion for you?"
"Only, mamma, to try to be of some benefit to her."
"I shall be of some benefit to you, now. Since I cannot trust you, Daisy since your own delicacy and feeling of what is right does not guide you in such matters, I shall lay my commands on you for the future. You are to have nothing to do with any person, younger or older, without finding out what my pleasure is about it. Do you understand me?"
"Yes, mamma."
"You are to give no more lessons to children who are not fit companions for you. You are not to have anything to do with this child in particular. Daisy, understand me I forbid you to speak to her again."
"Oh, mamma "
"Not a word," said Mrs. Randolph.
"But, mamma, please! just this. May I not tell her once, that
I cannot teach her? She will think me so strange!"
Mrs. Randolph was silent.
"Might I not, just that once, mamma?"