"Did you know you had head-ache a good deal of the time?"
"Yes, Dr. Sandford, I knew that. It is not very bad."
"Does not hinder you from going on with study?"
"Oh no, never."
"You have a good deal of time for study at night, too, do you not?—after the lights are out."
"At night? how did you know that? But it is not always study."
"No. You consume also a good deal of beef and mutton, nowadays? You prefer substantials in food as in everything else?"
I looked at my guardian, very much surprised that he should see all this in my face, and with a little of my childish fascination about those steady blue eyes. I could not deny that in these days I scarcely lived by eating. But in the eagerness and pleasure of my pursuits I had not missed it, and amid my many busy and anxious thoughts I had not cared about it.
"That will do," said the doctor. "Daisy, have you heard lately from your father or mother?"
My breath came short as I said no.