"Captain Drummond," said Daisy, with a very serious face, "do soldiers have a very hard time?"
"Not always. Not when they are lying out under the trees at
Melbourne, for example."
"But I mean, when they are acting like soldiers?"
He was ready with a laughing answer again, but seeing how earnest Daisy's face was, he controlled himself; and leaning on his elbow, with just a little smile of amusement on his face, he answered her.
"Well, Daisy sometimes they do."
"How, Captain Drummond?"
"In a variety of ways."
"Will you please tell me about it?"
He looked up at her. "Why, Daisy, what makes you curious in the matter? Have you a friend in the army?"
"No other but you," said Daisy.