Forgive Ransom out and out ?--say nothing about it ?--not tell her father, nor make her grievance at all known to Ransom's discomfiture ?--Daisy did not want to yield.

He _deserved_ to be reproved and ashamed and made to do better.

It was the first time that a real conflict had come up in her mind between wrong and right; and now that she clearly saw what was right, to her surprise she did not want to do it! Daisy saw both facts.

There was a power in her heart that said, No, I will not forgive, to the command from a greater power that bade her do it.

Poor Daisy! it was her first view of her enemy; the first trial that gave her any notion of the fighting that might be necessary to overcome him.