The Captain seemed much amused.
"My dear little lady!" he said, "it is good for me you are not half a score of years wiser.

What were you talking about the Crimea ?--I heard the word as I came up." "I asked Preston to shew it to me on the map--or he said he would." "Come with me and I'll do it.

You shouldn't ask anybody but me about the Crimea." So getting hold affectionately of Daisy's hand, he and she went off to the house.

No one was in the library.

The Captain opened a large map of Russia; Daisy got up in a chair, with her elbows on the great library table, and leaned over it, while the Captain drew up another chair and pointed out the Crimea and Sebastopol, and shewed the course by which the English ships had come, for Daisy took care to ask that.