Explore "Polly Oliver's Problem" by Kate Douglas Wiggin on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The new arrangement worked exceedingly well.
As to Edgar's innermost personal feelings, no one is qualified to speak with any authority. Whether he experienced a change of heart, vowed better things, prayed to be delivered from temptation, or simply decided to turn over a new leaf, no one knows; the principal fact in his life, at this period, seems to have been an unprecedented lack of time for any great foolishness.