"Is he?" said Daisy.
"Certainly. I always become acquainted with people's private affairs."
"But I do not want that you should be acquainted with mine."
"No matter. You are under my care," said the doctor. Then after a minute, he added, in a lower tone, "What have you been shedding tears about to-day?"
Daisy's face looked intensely grave; wise and old beyond her days, though the mouth was also sweet. So she faced the doctor, and answered him with the sedateness of fifty years "I can't very well tell you, Dr. Sandford."
"You have been shedding tears to-day?"
"Yes, sir " said Daisy, softly.
"A good many of them? You have been lying here with your face to the window, crying quietly, a good part of the afternoon have you not?"
"Yes, sir," said Daisy, wondering at him.
"Now, I am your physician, and must know what was the matter."