"I had Juanita to help me," said Daisy.
"How do you suppose I am going to get all those things made up?" said the doctor.
"Won't Mrs. Sandford attend to it?"
"Mrs. Sandford has her own contribution to attend to. I do not wish to give her mine too."
"Cannot the children's mother make the things?"
The doctor's lip curled in funny fashion.
"They have no mother, I think. There is an old aunt, or grandmother, or something, that does not take care of' the children. I shall not trust the business certainly to her."
Daisy wondered a little that Mrs. Sandford, who was so good- natured, could not do what was needful; but she said nothing.
"I think I shall turn over the whole thing in charge to you,
Daisy."
"But, Dr. Sandford, what can I do?"