"It makes me understand some things better."
"What, for instance?" said the doctor, looking as grave as
ever, though Preston was inclined to laugh.
Daisy saw it; nevertheless she answered, "The first chapter of
Genesis."
"Oh, you are there, are you?" said the doctor. "What light
have I thrown upon the passage, Daisy? It has not appeared to
myself."
Now Daisy hesitated. A sure though childish instinct told her
that her thoughts and feelings on this subject would meet with
no sympathy. She did not like to speak them.
"Daisy has peculiar views, Dr. Sandford," said Preston.
But the doctor paid him no attention. He looked at Daisy,
lifted her up, and arranged her pillows; then as he laid her
back said,
"Give me my explanation of that chapter, Daisy."
"It isn't an explanation, sir; — I did not know there was
anything to explain."
"The light I have thrown on it then — out of the sun."
Preston was amused, Daisy saw; she could not tell whether the
doctor was; his blue eyes gave no sign, except of a will to
hear what she had to say. Daisy hesitated, and hesitated, and
then, with something very like the old diplomacy she had
partly learned and partly inherited from her mother, she said,
"If you will read the chapter, I will tell you.
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