"
"I don't drive at all, Dr. Sandford. My aunt and governess do
not like to have me drive as I used to do. — I wish I could!"
"You would like to use your pony-chaise again?"
"Very much. I know it would rest me."
"And you have a governess, Daisy? That is something you had
not at Melbourne."
"No —" I said.
"A governess is a very nice thing," said the doctor, taking
off his hat and leaning back against the iron railing, — "if
she knows properly how to set people to play."
"To play!" I echoed. I don't know whether Miss Pinshon
approves of play."
"Oh! She approves of work then, does she?"
"She likes work," I answered.
"Keeps you busy?"
"Most of the day, sir."
"The evenings you have to yourself?"
"Sometimes. Not always. Sometimes I cannot get through with my
lessons, and they stretch on into the evening."
"How many lessons does this lady think a person of your age
and capacity can manage in the twenty-four hours?" said the
doctor, taking out his knife as he spoke and beginning to trim
the thorns off a bit of sweet-briar he had cut.
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