Nonsense! All that is not misery to such people, unless you make it so by shewing them something different.

Marble tables are not the thing for them, Daisy." "Marble tables!" echoed Daisy.
"Nor fuchsias and geraniums either.

That old thing's old flowers do just as well." Daisy was silent.

She could have answered this.

Preston went on.
"She won't be any better with her garden full of roses and myrtles, than she is with her sunflowers now.