A good fright would do it, I think.

But then the expression would not suit.

How is the Game, Mrs.Sandford ?" "Perfect! admirable! You and Hamilton do it excellently--and Daisy is a veritable angel." "How does _she_ like it all ?" Mrs.Randolph inquired.
"Aunt Felicia, she is as much engaged as anybody." "And plays as well," added Mrs.Sandford.
"She has found out to-day, aunt Felicia," Preston went on, speaking rather low, "that she ought to have a string of red stones round her head instead of white ones." Mrs.Randolph smiled.
"She was quite right," said Mrs.Sandford.

"It was a matter of colour, and she was quite right.

She was dressed for Queen Esther, and I made her look at herself to take the effect; and she suggested, very modestly, that stones of some colour would do better than diamonds round her head.