I could not!" "Why couldn't you?
I would not have given it to you, Daisy, if I had thought you would not have kept it." "I wanted to keep it very much--but I could not," said Daisy with the tears in her eyes.
"Why 'could not'?
why couldn't you?
did you give it away, Daisy?
that spoon I gave you ?" "Nora, I could not help it! Somebody else wanted it very much, and I was obliged to let her have it.

I could not help it." "I shall tell Marmaduke that you did not care for it," said Nora in an offended tone.

"I wish I had kept it myself.

It was a beautiful spoon." Daisy looked very much troubled.
"Who has got it ?" Nora went on.
"It is no matter who has got it," said Daisy.

"I couldn't keep it." "She is right, Nora," said Preston, who came up just then, at the same time with the doctor.