Miss Polly lifted her head quickly.

"Pollyanna, he did not think I sent it?"

"Oh, no, Aunt Polly. I told him you didn't."

Miss Polly grew a sudden vivid pink.

"You TOLD him I didn't!"

Pollyanna opened wide her eyes at the remonstrative dismay in her
aunt's voice.

"Why, Aunt Polly, you SAID to!"

Aunt Polly sighed.

"I SAID, Pollyanna, that I did not send it, and for you to be
very sure that he did not think I DID!--which is a very different
matter from TELLING him outright that I did not send it." And she
turned vexedly away.

"Dear me! Well, I don't see where the difference is," sighed
Pollyanna, as she went to hang her hat on the one particular hook
in the house upon which Aunt Polly had said that it must be hung.



CHAPTER XVI. A RED ROSE AND A LACE SHAWL