It went nicely; she was very comfortable; it was a new and most pleasant mode of getting over the ground; and yet--there was something at work in Daisy's heart that was not pleasure.

She was sadly disappointed.

She was left alone.

It had tried her a good deal that Nora and Ella should have ran after the larger party with so cavalier an abandonment of her, when they knew her chair must go another road.

Then she was very sorry that the doctor had seen good to forsake her; and felt that from the thoughtfulness or unselfishness of boys she had little to hope for.