CHAPTER XXII

POLLYANNA DOES HER BIT The oracles who insist on the importance of living in the present would have found Pollyanna a refractory disciple during the months that followed Jimmie’s departure. From her standpoint, the present had little to offer, and she dared not look ahead into the future. Day by day as she went through the routine of her work—and she left few minutes unaccounted for—she really was living in the past, talking with Jimmy, walking with Jimmy, basking in the light of his frank eyes, listening to his bu…