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120 RAINBOW VALLEYwere lost in amazement.Back under the gallery Faithsaw the sweet graciousness of Miss Rosemary West'ssmile and the amusement of Miss Ellen's. But noneof these helped her. It was Bertie Shakespeare Drewwho saved the situation. Bertie Shakespeare sat inthe front seat of the gallery and he made a derisiveface at Faith.Faith promptly made a dreadful oneback at him, and, in her anger over being grimaced atby Bertie Shakespeare, forgot her stage fright. Shefound her voice and spoke out clearly and bravely."I want to explain something," she said, "and Iwant to do it now because everybodywill hear it thatheard the other. People are saying that Una and Istayed home last Sunday and cleaned house instead ofgoing to Sunday School. Well, we did but we didn'tmean to. We had got mixed up in the days of theweek. It was all Elder Baxter's fault" sensation inthe Baxter pew "because he went and changed theprayer meeting to Wednesday night and then wethought Thursday was Friday and so on till we thoughtSaturday was Sunday. Carl was laid up sick and sowas Aunt Martha, so they couldn't put us right. Wewent to Sunday School in all that rain on Saturdayand nobody came.we'd cleanAnd then we thoughthouse on Monday and stop old cats from talking abouthow dirty the manse was"sensation all overgeneralchurch "and we did. I shook the rugsin the Methodistgraveyard because it was such a convenientplace and not because I meant to be disrespectful to the