The younger of two was a stranger to me. She was extended full length at her end of the diven,
completely motionless, and with her chin raised a little , as if she were balancing something
on it which was quite likely to fall.If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no
hint of it-indeed,I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by
coming in.The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise-she leaned slightly forward with a
conscientious expression-then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed
too and came foward into the room.
"I'm p-paralyzed with happiness."
She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking
up into my face , promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That
was a way she had. She hinted in a murmur that the surname of the balancing girl was Baker.(I've
heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her, an irrelevant critcism
that made it no less charming.)