What has come over you?
You played Esther beautifully only this morning.

What is the matter ?" "I have been thinking about it," said Daisy; "and I have concluded I would rather give it to Nora." Preston was abundantly vexed, for he knew by the signs that Daisy had made up her mind; and he was beginning to know that his little cousin was exceedingly hard to move when once she was fully set on a thing.

He debated within himself an appeal to authority; but on the whole dismissed that thought.

It was best not to disgust Daisy with the whole affair; and he hoped coaxing might yet do the work.

But Daisy was too quick for him.
"Nora," she said at the next meeting, "if you like, I will change with you in the fainting picture.