"I think I have grown dull, Dr. Sandford," I said.
He came up behind me, and put his arms round me, taking my
hand in his, and spoke in quite a different tone.
"Daisy, have you found many 'wonderful things' at Magnolia?"
I looked up, I remember, with the eagerness of a heart full of
thoughts, into his face; but I could not speak then.
"Have you looked through a microscope since you have been
there? and made discoveries?"
"Not in natural things, Dr. Sandford."
"Ha!" said the doctor. "Do you want to go and take a drive
with me?"
"Oh, yes!"
"Go and get ready then, please."
I had a very pleasant, quiet drive; the doctor showing me, as
he said, not wonderful things but new things, and taking means
to amuse me. And every day for several days I had a drive.
Sometimes we went to the country, sometimes got out and
examined something in the city. There was a soothing relief in
it all, and in the watchful care taken of me at home, and the
absence of mathematics and philosophy. All day when not
driving or at meals, I lay on Mrs.
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