"What two things, papa?"
"To love nobody, or to have nobody to love her?"
"Papa I do not know." Then, remembering Juanita, Daisy suddenly added, "Papa, I should think it must be the worst to love nobody."
"Do you? Pray why?"
"It would not make her happy, I think, to have people love her if she did not love them."
"And you think loving others would be better, without anybody to give love back?"
"I should think it would be very hard!" said Daisy, with a most profound expression of thoughtfulness.
"Well this poor cripple, I understand, lacks both these conditions of happiness?"
"Yes, papa."
"What then? You were going to tell me something about her."