"Capital, Daisy!--capital!" cried Preston.
"If you only look it like that, we shall do admirably.

It will be a tableau indeed.

There, get up--you shall not practise any more just now." "It will be very fine," said Mrs.Sandford.
"Daisy, I did not think you were such an actress," said Theresa.
"It would have overset _me_, if I had been John Alden--" remarked Hamilton Rush.
Daisy withdrew into the background as fast as possible, and as far as possible from Alexander.
"Do you like to do it, Daisy ?" whispered Nora.
"No." "Are you going to have a handsome dress for that ?" "No." "What sort, then ?" "Like the picture." "Well--what is that ?" "Brown, with a white vandyke." "Vandyke?
what is a vandyke ?" "Hush," said Daisy; "let us look." Frederica Fish was to personify Lady Jane Grey, at the moment when the nobles of her family and party knelt before her to offer her the crown.
As Frederica was a fair, handsome girl, without much animation, this part suited her; she had only to be dressed and sit still.

Mrs.Sandford threw some rich draperies round her figure, and twisted a silk scarf about the back of her head; and the children exclaimed at the effect produced.

That was to be a rich picture, for of course the kneeling nobles were to be in costly and picturesque attire; and a crown was to be borne on a cushion before them.