12/40 Now Daisy, here you are! This is the very thing." "For what ?" said Daisy. This is Queen Esther before Ahasuerus--you know the story ?" "O yes!--when he stretched out the golden sceptre to her. She is fainting, isn't she ?" "Exactly. You can do that glorious, because you have always a pair of pale cheeks on hand." "I ?"--said Daisy again. "Do you want me to be two things ?" "A dozen things, perhaps. |