Daisy was at the dinner-table.

After having a good sleep on June's knee, she had come home and dressed as usual, and she was in her place when the dessert was brought on.

Mr.Randolph from his distant end of the table watched her a little; he saw that she behaved just as usual; she did not shun anybody, though her mother shunned her.

A glove covered her right hand, yet Daisy persisted in using that hand rather than attract notice, though from the slowness of her movements it was plain it cost her some trouble.

Gary McFarlane asked why she had a glove on, and Mr.
Randolph heard Daisy's perfectly quiet and true answer, that "her hand was wounded, and had to wear a glove,"-- given without any confusion or evasion.