"The evening has been hateful.

I wish I hadn't come." "O Nora! don't say that," Daisy urged.

"The pictures are almost over now; and then we shall have supper." "I don't want supper! I only wanted to be Queen Esther and you said I might.

It was the prettiest picture of the whole lot." "But I couldn't help it, Nora." "I could have done it just as well as Theresa! She didn't look handsome a bit." "O Nora, I think she did--for a picture." "She didn't a bit; the things she had on looked handsome." Daisy was called away.

Her last dressing was to be done now, and the one of which Daisy was most doubtful.