He stopped and read it two or three times over.
"But Daisy!"-- he said.
"What, Capt.

Drummond ?" "What has this to do with what we were talking about ?" "Would you please shut this up and put it away, first ?" The Captain obeyed, and as he turned from the bookshelves Daisy took his hand again, and drew him, child-fashion, out of the house and through the shrubbery.

He let her alone till she had brought him to a shady spot, where under the thick growth of magnificent trees a rustic seat stood, in full view of the distant mountains and the river.
"Where is my answer, Daisy ?" he said, as she let go his hand and seated herself.
"What was your question, Capt.

Drummond ?" "Now you are playing hide and seek with me.

What have those words you shewed me,--what have they to do with our yesterday's conversation ?" "I would like to know," said Daisy slowly, "what it means, to be a good soldier ?" "Why ?" "I think I have told you," she said.
She said it with the most unmoved simplicity.