They have arranged for a consultation at once." "But--but what WERE her injuries that you do know ?" "A slight cut on the head, one or two bruises, and--and an injury to the spine which has seemed to cause--paralysis from the hips down." A low cry came from the man.

There was a brief silence; then, huskily, he asked: "And Pollyanna--how does she--take it ?" "She doesn't understand--at all--how things really are.

And I CAN'T tell her." "But she must know--something!" Miss Polly lifted her hand to the collar at her throat in the gesture that had become so common to her of late.
"Oh, yes.

She knows she can't--move; but she thinks her legs are--broken.

She says she's glad it's broken legs like yours rather than 'lifelong-invalids' like Mrs.Snow's; because broken legs get well, and the other--doesn't.