"Go down again to the kitchen, child"; but there was a sob, a kind of tremor in her voice.
"You haven't been eating properly, Ellen--that's what's the matter with you," said Bunting suddenly.

"Now I come to think of it, you haven't eat half enough these last two days.

I always did say--in old days many a time I telled you--that a woman couldn't live on air.

But there, you never believed me!" Daisy stood looking from one to the other, a shadow over her bright, pretty face.

"I'd no idea you'd had such a bad time, father," she said feelingly.