POLLY
(nodding).

What you were going to be. Tom said you'd be a lawyer. Amy said you'd be a great teacher, and I said you'd be a mender!

LINCOLN
(slowly).

A mender—! I never once thought of being a mender, Polly.

NANCY
(with a little cry).

Polly Prentice, look! Look what the time is! Ten minutes to eight! We'll be late for the corn-husking.

LINCOLN
(surprised).

Corn-husking?

POLLY
(dancing about).

Didn't you know there was to be one? Oh, I thought we'd surprise you! We're all going. You, too.