What "vocation" meant, she did not know, nor who was "the prisoner of the Lord," nor what that could mean; but yet she caught at something of the sense.

"Walk worthy," she understood that; and guessed what "vocation" stood for.

Ay! that was just it, and that was just what Daisy was not doing.

The next words, too, were plain enough.
"With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love." "Forbearing one another"-- easy to read, how hard to do! Mrs.Gary's image was very ugly yet to Daisy.

Could she speak pleasantly to her aunt?
could she even look pleasantly at her?
could she "forbear" all unkindness, even in thought?
Not yet! Daisy felt very miserable and very much ashamed of herself, even while her anger was in abiding strength and vigour.
She went on, reading through the whole chapter; not because she had not enough already to think about, but because she did not feel that she could obey it.