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We only give her that abominable cognomen for the sake of wheedling
something out of that old woman in America. Archie is to write and tell
her."
So Archie wrote the best letter he could concoct, and said he had named
his little daughter Betsey, which he hoped would please his aunt. This
he took for approval to Daisy, who said it was very well, but insisted
that he should add a P.S. that if his aunt had fifty pounds or so of
ready money, he would like to borrow it for a time, as his expenses were
heavy, and Stoneleigh needed so much repairing. At first Archie refused
utterly; it looked so much like begging, he said, but he was overruled
and added the P.S., which made Miss McPherson furious and steeled her
heart against the innocent baby who bore her name.
The request for money overmastered every gentler feeling, and the letter
was consigned to the flames and never answered.
"Never mind, Archie," Daisy said, as weeks went by and there came no
message from America. "The old miser means to cut us off.


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