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 . Una 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 . Meanwhile , a weird story flew through Glen St. Mary and folks asked each other seriously what was to be done with those manse youngsters . `` That is past laughing at , believe ME , '' said Miss Cornelia to her husband , with a heavy sigh . `` I could n't believe it at first . Miranda Drew brought the story home from the Methodist Sunday School this afternoon and I simply scoffed at it . But Mrs. Elder Abraham says she and the Elder saw it with their own eyes . '' `` Saw what ? '' asked Marshall .
`` Faith and Una Meredith stayed home XXXXX Sunday School this morning and CLEANED HOUSE , '' said Miss Cornelia , in accents of despair .
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