CHAPTER VII

POLLYANNA AND THE LAW In the intervals between the visits of the Fisher family, Pollyanna’s friendship with Judith had been steadily progressing. The two young wives, transplanted, from homes where they had a wide acquaintance, to the desperate loneliness of a great city, found in each other’s companionship a sort of life preserver, buoying them up when the waves of homesickness threatened to submerge them. The similarity in their circumstances, which would have impressed a casual observer, was after all only a sup…