"My Egyptian spoon! that Marmaduke gave me to give to you! You have not kept it! What did you do with it, Daisy?"
"I did nothing with it."
"Did you break it?"
"No."
"Did you give it away?"
"Oh, Nora, I loved it very much," said poor Daisy; "but I could not keep it. I could not!"
"Why couldn't you? I would not have given it to you, Daisy, if
I had thought you would not have kept it."
"I wanted to keep it very much but I could not," said Daisy, with the tears in her eyes.
"Why 'could not'? why couldn't you? Did you give it away,
Daisy? that spoon I gave you?"
"Nora, I could not help it! Somebody else wanted it very much, and I was obliged to let her have it. I could not help it."