Can you get a tear on your cheek ?" "Might take an uncommon strong spoonful of mustard--" said Theresa--"I suppose that would do it.

But you are not going to let the spectators come so near as to see drops of tears, I hope ?" "No matter--your eyes and whole expression would be affected by the mustard; it would tell, even at a distance." When they got through laughing, some one asked, "What is Daisy to be ?" "O, she is to be Priscilla here--I thought nobody but Daisy would care about being a Puritan; but it is her chosen character." "It'll be a pretty tableau," said Theresa.
"And what am I to be, Preston ?" said Nora.
"You are to be several things.

You and Ella must be the two young princes in the tower." "What tower ?" said Nora.
There was another general laugh, and then Daisy, who was well at home in English history, pulled her little friend aside to whisper to her the story and shew her the picture.
"What are those men going to do ?" said Nora.
"They are going to kill the little princes.

They have got a featherbed or something there, and they are going to smother them while they are asleep." "But I don't want the featherbed on top of me!" said Nora.
"No, no,--it is not to come down on you; but that is the picture; they will hold it just so; it will not come down." "But suppose they should let it fall ?" "They will not let it fall.

The picture is to have it held just so, as if they were going to smother the poor little princes the next minute." "I think it is a horrid picture!" said Nora.
"But it will only last a little while.