Una 's little pearl-pure face gleamed up at her beseechingly from the manse pew . The Blythe children were lost in amazement . Back under the gallery Faith saw the sweet graciousness of Miss Rosemary West 's smile and the amusement of Miss Ellen 's . But none of these helped her . It was Bertie Shakespeare Drew who saved the situation . Bertie Shakespeare sat in the front seat of the gallery and he made a derisive face at Faith . Faith promptly made a dreadful one back at him , and , in her anger over being grimaced at by Bertie Shakespeare , forgot her stage fright . She found her voice and spoke out clearly and bravely . `` I want to explain something , '' she said , `` and I want to do it now because everybody will hear it that heard the other . People are saying that Una and I stayed home last Sunday and cleaned house instead of going to Sunday School . Well , we did -- but we did n't mean to . We got mixed up in the days of the week . It was all Elder Baxter 's fault '' -- sensation in Baxter 's pew -- `` because he went and changed the prayer-meeting to Wednesday night and then we thought Thursday was Friday and so on till we thought Saturday was Sunday . Carl was laid up sick and so was Aunt Martha , so they could n't put us right . We went to Sunday School in all that rain on Saturday and nobody came . And then we thought we 'd clean house on Monday and stop old cats from talking about how dirty the manse was '' -- general sensation all over the church -- `` and we did . I shook the rugs in the Methodist graveyard because it was such a convenient place and not because I meant to be disrespectful of the dead . It is n't the dead folks who have made the fuss over this -- it 's the living folks . And it is n't right for any of you to blame my father for this , because he was away and did n't know , and anyhow we thought it was Monday . He 's just the best father that ever lived in the world and we love him with all our hearts . ''
Faith 's bravado ebbed out XXXXX a sob .
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