Her pew was far back and it occurred to her that whatever Faith meant to do or say would be half done or said before she could reach her . There was no use making the exhibition worse than it had to be . With an anguished glance at Mrs. Dr. Blythe , and another at Deacon Warren of the Methodist Church , Miss Cornelia resigned herself to another scandal . `` If the child was only dressed decently itself , '' she groaned in spirit . Faith , having spilled ink on her good dress , had serenely put on an old one of faded pink print . A caticornered rent in the skirt had been darned with scarlet tracing cotton and the hem had been let down , showing a bright strip of unfaded pink around the skirt . But Faith was not thinking of her clothes at all . She was feeling suddenly nervous . What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality . Confronted by all those staring questioning eyes Faith 's courage almost failed her . The lights were so bright , the silence so awesome . She thought she could not speak after all . But she MUST -- her father MUST be cleared of suspicion . Only -- the words would NOT come . 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 , XXXXX her anger over being grimaced at by Bertie Shakespeare , forgot her stage fright .
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