"I have nothing new to tell, Daisy.
What are you about ?" "Dr.Sandford," said the child, "won't you tell me a little ?" The inquiry was piteous.

For some reason or other, the doctor did not answer it with a put-off, nor with flattering words, as doctors are so apt to do.

Perhaps it was not his habit, but certainly in other respects he was not too good a man to do it.

He sat down and let the moonlight show Daisy his face.
"Daisy," he said, "your father was stunned by his blow, and needs to be kept in perfect quiet for a time, until he is quite over it.

People after such a fall often do; but I do not know that any other consequences whatever will follow." "He was stunned--" repeated Daisy.
"Yes." The child did not say any more, yet her eyes of searching eagerness plainly asked for fuller information.