Sandford might
recommend. The letter further desired, that Dr. Sandford would
keep a regular watch over my health, and suffer no school
training nor anything else to interfere with it; expressing
the writer's confidence that Dr. Sandford knew better than any
one what was good for me.
"So you see, Daisy," the doctor said, when I handed him back
the letter, "your father has constituted me in some sort your
guardian, until such time as he comes back."
"I am very glad," I said, smiling.
"Are you? That is kind. I am going to act upon my authority
immediately, and take you away."
"From Magnolia?" I said breathlessly.
"Yes. Wouldn't you like to go and see Melbourne again for a
little while?"
"Melbourne!" said I; and I remember how my cheeks grew warm.
"But — will Miss Pinshon go to Melbourne?"
"No; she will not. Nor anywhere else, Daisy, with my will and
permission, where you go. Will that distress you very much?"
I could not say yes, and I believe I made no answer, my
thoughts were in such a whirl.
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