"In writing?"
"I might write it if I chose, I often do, but I had to give the synopsis from memory."
"Does it take long to prepare, Daisy?" said the doctor, still turning over the leaves.
"Pretty long," I said, "when I am stupid. 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."