"Daisy, I will buy this spoon of you," said her aunt.
Daisy thought not; but she said, "With what, aunt Gary?"
"With anything you please. Do you set a high value on it? What is it worth?"
Daisy hesitated; and then she said, "I think it is worth my regard, aunt Gary!"
She could not guess why there was a general little laugh round the table at this speech.
"Daisy, you are an original," said Mrs. Gary. "May I ask, why this piece of old Egypt deserves your regard?"
"I think anything does, aunt Gary, that is a gift," Daisy said, a little shyly.
"If your first speech sounded forty years old, your second does not," said the lady.
"Arcadian again, both of them," Mr. Randolph remarked.
"You always take Daisy's part," said the lady briskly. But Mr.
Randolph let the assertion drop.