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 , in her anger over being grimaced at by Bertie Shakespeare , forgot her stage fright . She found her voice and spoke out clearly and bravely . `` I want to explain something , '' she said , `` and I want to do it now because everybody will hear it that heard the other . People are saying that Una and I stayed home last Sunday and cleaned house instead of going to Sunday School . Well , we did -- but we did n't mean to . We got mixed up in the days of the week .
It was all Elder Baxter 's fault '' -- sensation in Baxter 's pew -- `` because he went and changed the prayer-meeting to Wednesday night and then we thought Thursday was Friday and so on till we XXXXX Saturday was Sunday .
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