Your part will be easy, Daisy--you must have a pair of strong-armed handmaidens.

What do you want Nora for, Preston ?" "Could she be one of them, Mrs.Sandford ?" "Yes,--if she can be impressed with the seriousness of the occasion; but the maids of the queen ought to be wholly in distress for their mistress, you know.

She could be one of the princes in the tower, very nicely." "Yes, capitally," said Preston.

"And--Mrs.Sandford--wouldn't she make a good John Alden ?" "Daisy for Priscilla! Excellent!" said Mrs.Sandford.

"If the two could keep their gravity, which I very much doubt." "Daisy can keep anything," said Preston.