22/24 A book did duty for it just now, on a couch pillow. "I want to be dressed and look so." "You will be dressed to be one of the queen's women in Esther and Ahasuerus, you know." "But the queen will be dressed more--won't she ?" "Yes, I suppose she will." "I should like to be the queen; that is what I should like to be." Daisy made no answer. She thought she would rather Nora should _not_ be the queen. The tableau was quite pretty, even partially dressed and in this off hand way as it was. She had seen perhaps a little of the child's discomposure, and wished to make her forget it. |