Oh, Abe, before you came we were all guessing----

LINCOLN.
Guessing?

POLLY
(nodding).
What you were going to be. Tom said you'd be a lawyer. Amy said you'd
be a great teacher, and I said you'd be a _mender_!

LINCOLN
(slowly).
A mender--! I never once thought of being a mender, Polly.

NANCY
(with a little cry).
Polly Prentice, look! Look what the time is! Ten minutes to eight!
We'll be late for the corn-husking.

LINCOLN
(surprised).
Corn-husking?

POLLY
(dancing about).
Didn't you know there was to be one? Oh, I thought we'd surprise you!
We're all going. You, too.

[Lincoln shakes his head.