The doctor
was getting a very good amusement himself, and quite entered into the
matter. He waited for Daisy's answer. It came diplomatically.
"_Isn't_ everything good for something, sir?"
"'Pon my word, I don't know," said the doctor. "My enquiry was for the
grounds of your opinion, Daisy."
"It was not an opinion. I do not think I am old enough to have an
opinion."
"What was it, Daisy?"
The doctor was still crouching down by the side of the rock examining
carelessly whatever he found there. Daisy looked at him and waited, and
felt at last that good manners required her to speak.
"You said, sir, that baskets were made to hold something."
"So your remark was an inference from mine?"
"No, sir."
"Go on, Daisy."
"I only said it, sir, because I knew it was true."
There was an odd contrast between the extreme modesty of Daisy's manner
and the positiveness of her words.
"It is said to be a great philosophical truth, Daisy; but what I want to
know is how you, not being a philosopher, have got such firm hold of
it?"
He faced Daisy now, and she gave way as usual before the searching blue
eyes. One soft look, and her eyes fell away.
"I only thought it. Dr. Sandford, because in the beginning--when God had
made everything--the Bible says he saw that it was all good."
"Daisy, how came you to be such a lover of the Bible?"
Daisy did not speak at once, and when she did it was a departure from
the subject.
"Dr. Sandford, I felt a drop of rain on my face!"
"And here is another," said the doctor getting up.
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