Sometimes I cannot
do the synchronising, my head gets so thick; and I have to
take two or three days for it."
"Don't you get punished, for letting your head get thick?"
"Sometimes I do."
"And what is the system of punishment at Magnolia for such
deeds?"
"I am kept in the house for the rest of the afternoon
sometimes," I said; "or I have an extra problem in mathematics
to get out for the next morning."
"And _that_ keeps you in, if the governess don't."
"Oh, no," I said; "I never can work at it then. I get up
earlier the next morning."
"Do you do nothing for exercise but those walks, which you do
not take?"
"I used to ride last year," I said; "and this year I was
stronger, and Miss Pinshon gave me more studies; and somehow I
have not cared to ride so much. I have felt more like being
still."
"You must have grown tremendously wise, Daisy," said the
doctor, looking round at me now with his old pleasant smile. I
cannot tell the pleasure and comfort it was to me to see him;
but I think I said nothing.
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