Who was it, Daisy ?" "Never mind, please, Dr.Sandford! It is no matter at all now." She put her little hand confidingly in the doctor's as she spoke and looked very earnest.

He could not resist her.
"I wish I had come sooner," he said.

"I shall be suspicious of everybody, Daisy.

Come--you and I must go to dinner, or there will be a hue and cry after us." Indeed by this time the whole party were gathered, and in impatient expectation that the dinner would make up to them in some degree for the various disappointments of the morning.

All were gathered and had arranged themselves conveniently upon the grass, around the feast which was spread out upon the tablecloth, before anybody knew that two of their number were wanting.