Harbonner could say. "You air, be you?"
"It hasn't done me any harm at all; and it has done me a great deal of
good."
Mrs. Harbonner stood staring at Daisy.
"The promise is sure," said Mrs. Benoit. "All things shall work together
for good to them that love God!"
The other woman wheeled about and looked at her for an instant with a
sharp keen eye of note-taking; then she returned to Daisy.
"Well I suppose I'll tell Hephzibah she won't see you again till
summer's over; so she may as well give over thinking about it."
"Do you think Hephzibah wants to learn, Mrs. Harbonner?"
"Well, I guess she does."
"Wouldn't she come here and get her lessons? Couldn't she come to see me
every day while I am here?"
"I 'spose she'd jump out of her skin to do it," said Mrs. Harbonner.
"Hephzibah's dreadful sot on seeing you."
"Mrs. Benoit," said Daisy, "may I have this little girl come to see me
every day, while I am here?"
"Miss Daisy shall have all, who she will," was the answer; and it was
arranged so; and Mrs. Harbonner took her departure. Lingering a minute
at the door, whither Juanita attended her, she made one or two enquiries
and remarks about Daisy, answered civilly and briefly by Mrs.
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