Stilton is getting it ready."
"Who is invited, Daisy?" inquired Mr. McFarlane. "Do you
intend to receive any except those who are not your friends?"
"I don't think those of a different class had better come,"
said Daisy.
"Daisy is quite right," said Mrs. Randolph.
"Do you not intend to show yourself?" said her husband, with
some meaning.
"I? No! Certainly not. At her age, since you choose to indulge
Daisy in her whim, she may do what she pleases."
Was this what the man meant by Randolph's people being "stuck
up?" Daisy looked grave, and her father bade her run away and
attend to her preparations.
Even then she went slowly and a little puzzled, till she
reached the housekeeper's room; and there the full beauty of
the occasion burst upon her. Such nice things as Joanna was
making ready!
Daisy ran off at full speed to Logan to get a supply of greens
and flowers to trim her baskets. Nora was coming to help her
and be with her all day, and arrived just in time. With aprons
and baskets full, the two children sought a hidden spot on the
bank under the trees, and there sat down, with strawberry
baskets in one heap, and the sprigs and leaves to dress them
in another.
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