Page 29 (1/2)

"Daisy!" was his first question - "Daisy, where have you

been?"

"I have been here - a while"

"I heard it from Aunt Catherine yesterday - I should have

found you before another day went over - Daisy, how long?"

I hardly liked to tell hier and so

iht to know, and to

have known But he did not wait for the answer; and instead,

drawing my arlad, so tender, so bright, that I tre, and all the blood in ain The bridle was over his other arm, and

the horse with drooped head walked on the other side of him,

while Mr Thorold led me on in this fashion I do not kno

far I do not knohat he said or what I answered, except in

bits I know that he made me answer him I was not capable of

the least self-assertion What startled me at last out of this

abstraction, was the sudden fear that weabout it Only to hed at hed - attroops to-day?"

"All day; or I should have co have you been in Washington, Daisy?"