"You'll have to get the carpenter or Mr.Stilton to make you a table." "Yes, that's easy," said Daisy; "but Joanna, what shall we have on it?
There will want to be a good deal, for seventeen people; and I want it handsome, you know." "Of course," said Joanna, looking as if she were casting up the Multiplication Table--"it'll have to be that, whatever else it is.

Miss Daisy, suppose you let me manage it--and I'll see and have it all right.
If you will give orders about the strawberries, and have the table made." "I shall dress the table with flowers, Joanna." "Yes--well--" said Joanna,--"I don't know anything about flowers; but I'll have the cake ready, and everything else." "And tea and coffee, Joanna ?" "Why I never thought of that!--yes, to be sure, they'll want something to drink--who will pour it out, Miss Daisy ?" "I don't know.

Won't you, Joanna ?" "Well--I don't know--" said the housekeeper, as if she were afraid of being taken on too fast by her little counsellor--"I don't know as there's anything to hinder, as it's your birthday, Miss Daisy." Away went Daisy delighted, having secured just what she wanted.

The rest was easy.

And Daisy certainly thought it was as promising an entertainment as she could have devised.