"Never thought of it.

YOU don't seem ter sense what it means ter have Miss Polly WORRIED about ye, child!" "Why, it means worried--and worried is horrid--to feel," maintained Pollyanna.

"What else can it mean ?" Nancy tossed her head.
"Well, I'll tell ye what it means.

It means she's at last gettin' down somewheres near human--like folks; an' that she ain't jest doin' her duty by ye all the time." "Why, Nancy," demurred the scandalized Pollyanna, "Aunt Polly always does her duty.

She--she's a very dutiful woman!" Unconsciously Pollyanna repeated John Pendleton's words of half an hour before.
Nancy chuckled.
"You're right she is--and she always was, I guess! But she's somethin' more, now, since you came." Pollyanna's face changed.