`` I would never have believed it if I had n't seen it with my own eyes , '' said Mrs. Elder Abraham , more solemnly still . Faith waved a door mat cheerily at the Clow party . It did not worry her that the elder and his wife did not return her greeting . Everybody knew that Elder Abraham had never been known to smile since he had been appointed Superintendent of the Sunday School fourteen years previously . But it hurt her that Minnie and Adella Clow did not wave back . Faith liked Minnie and Adella . Next to the Blythes , they were her best friends in school and she always helped Adella with her sums . This was gratitude for you . Her friends cut her because she was shaking rugs in an old graveyard where , as Mary Vance said , not a living soul had been buried for years . Faith flounced around to the veranda , where she found Una grieved in spirit because the Clow girls had not waved to her , either . `` I suppose they 're mad over something , '' said Faith . `` Perhaps they 're jealous because we play so much in Rainbow Valley with the Blythes . Well , just wait till school opens and Adella wants me to show her how to do her sums ! We 'll get square then . Come on , let 's put the things back in . I 'm tired to death and I do n't believe the rooms will look much better than before we started -- though I shook out pecks of dust in the graveyard . I HATE house-cleaning . '' It was two o'clock before the tired girls finished the two rooms . They got a dreary bite in the kitchen and intended to wash the dishes at once . But Faith happened to pick up a new story-book Di Blythe had lent her and was lost to the world until sunset .
XXXXX took a cup of rank tea up to Carl but found him asleep ; so she curled herself up on Jerry 's bed and went to sleep too .
Abraham Adella Blythe Clow Minnie Superintendent Una Vance before years