"Every thing?" said Mr. Ward: "that is bad. Does Daisy want you all to keep silence? That must spoil your play."
"Oh, no!" said Minnie, "not that; but she says such lots of things are wrong to say. Why, sir, she won't say 'upon her word and honor,' 'cause she don't think it is right."
"Why do you want her to say it?" asked Mr. Ward.
"I was just going to tell them all a great secret, and I wanted her to promise, on her sacred word and honor, she would never tell; and she wouldn't do it."
"So Daisy is apt to break her promises, is she?" said the gentleman, with a smile at Daisy, which told very plainly that he was only joking.
"Oh, no, sir!" said Minnie. "Indeed she is not. Daisy always tells the truth, and never does what she says she won't; at least, we never knew her to do it: did we, girls?"
A chorus of young voices was raised in Daisy's favor.
"And yet you cannot trust her unless she swears to what she promises," said Mr. Ward.