"I have been visiting, papa."
"Pray whom?"
"Molly, papa and Juanita," Daisy said, not very willingly, for Mrs. Randolph was within hearing.
"A happy selection!" said she. "Go and get ready for dinner,
Daisy."
"Have you been all the afternoon at those two places, Daisy." asked her father, within whose arms she stood.
"Yes, papa."
He let her go; and a significant look passed between him and his wife.
"A little too much of a good thing," said Mr. Randolph.
"It will be too much, soon," the lady answered.
Nevertheless Daisy for the present was safe, thanks to her friend Dr. Sandford; and she passed on upstairs with a spirit as light as a bird. And after she was dressed, till it was time for her to go in to the dinner-table, all that while a little figure was kneeling at the open window, and a little round head was bowed upon the sill. And after that, there was no cloud upon Daisy's face at all.