If she had been set on some wrong thing, it would have made but a very little disturbance--if any; but now, when she was only trying to do right, the whole house was roused to prevent her.

Was it so in those strange old times that the eleventh chapter of Hebrews told of ?--when men, and women, were stoned, and sawn asunder, and slain with the sword, and wandered like wild animals in sheepskins and goatskins and in dens and caves of the earth?
all for the name of Jesus.

But if they suffered once, they were happy now.

Better anything, at all events, than to deny that name! The evening seemed excessively long to Daisy, lying there on her bed awake, and listening with strained ears for any sound near her room.

She heard none; the hours passed, though so very slowly, as they do when all the minutes are watched; and Daisy heard nothing but dim distant noises, and grew pretty quiet.