Don't you think that basket'll suit, ma'am ?" Baskets?
and what meant those words which had been over and over in Daisy's mind for the few days past?
--"Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." Her mind was in great confusion.
"How much does a ham cost, Mr.Lamb ?" "Sixteen pence a pound, ma'am," said the storekeeper rather drily, for he did not know but Daisy was thinking a reproof to him.
"But how many pounds are there in a ham ?" "Just as it happens, ma'am--sometimes twenty, and from there down to ten." "Then how much does a whole ham cost ?" said Daisy, whose arithmetic was not ready.
"A ham of fifteen pounds, ma'am, would be about two dollars and forty cents." Daisy stood looking at the baskets, and thinking how much money she would have over if she took the sixpenny ones.

She wanted twenty baskets; she found that the difference of price between the plain and the pretty would leave her twenty shillings in hand.

Just enough! thought Daisy,--and yet, how could she go to a strange house and offer to give them a ham?
She thought she could not.

If she had known the people; but as it was--Daisy bought the pretty baskets and set off homewards.
"Whatsoever ye would that others should do to you, do ye even so to them"-- Daisy could see nothing along the road but those words.

"That is my King's command to me--and those poor people have got no breakfast.