33/38 Don't the botanists put it highest in the line of development? Things she knew perfectly well, at one moment, seemed to become doubtful the next. 'The daisy is a perfect little democracy, so it's the highest of flowers, hence its charm.' 'No,' she cried, 'no--never. It isn't democratic.' 'No,' he admitted. 'It's the golden mob of the proletariat, surrounded by a showy white fence of the idle rich.' 'How hateful--your hateful social orders!' she cried. |