She went slowly off over the grounds, meditating whether the people would be satisfied with so very at-arms'-length an entertainment.

Would _this_ draw the poor nearer to the rich?
or the rich nearer to the poor?
Daisy had an instinctive, delicate sense of the want, which she set herself to do the best her little self could to supply.

"Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you"-- that sweet and most perfect rule of high breeding was moving her now; and already the spirit of another rule, which in words she did not yet know, was beginning to possess her heart in its young discipleship; she was ready "to do good to all men, even as she had opportunity." She went slowly back to the table.

Nobody come yet.

Joanna was there, putting some last touches.