"I was just a-fearin! I'd find you like this, like this." Pollyanna shook her head.
"But I'm bad and wicked, Nancy--awful wicked," she sobbed.

"I just can't make myself understand that God and the angels needed my father more than I did." "No more they did, neither," declared Nancy, stoutly.
"Oh-h!--NANCY!" The burning horror in Pollyanna's eyes dried the tears.
Nancy gave a shamefaced smile and rubbed her own eyes vigorously.
"There, there, child, I didn't mean it, of course," she cried briskly.
"Come, let's have your key and we'll get inside this trunk and take our your dresses in no time, no time." Somewhat tearfully Pollyanna produced the key.
"There aren't very many there, anyway," she faltered.
"Then they're all the sooner unpacked," declared Nancy.
Pollyanna gave a sudden radiant smile.
"That's so! I can be glad of that, can't I ?" she cried.
Nancy stared.
"Why, of--course," she answered a little uncertainly.
Nancy's capable hands made short work of unpacking the books, the patched undergarments, and the few pitifully unattractive dresses.
Pollyanna, smiling bravely now, flew about, hanging the dresses in the closet, stacking the books on the table, and putting away the undergarments in the bureau drawers.
"I'm sure it--it's going to be a very nice room.

Don't you think so ?" she stammered, after a while.
There was no answer.

Nancy was very busy, apparently, with her head in the trunk.

Pollyanna, standing at the bureau, gazed a little wistfully at the bare wall above.
"And I can be glad there isn't any looking-glass here, too, 'cause where there ISN'T any glass I can't see my freckles." Nancy made a sudden queer little sound with her mouth--but when Pollyanna turned, her head was in the trunk again.