about quarter past ten
`` To church , I mean . '' `` But , Pollyanna , I do n't -- that is , I 'd rather not -- '' Mrs. Carew cleared her throat and tried again to say that she was not going to church at all ; that she almost never went . But with Pollyanna 's confident little face and happy eyes before her , she could not do it . `` Why , I suppose -- about quarter past ten -- if we walk , '' she said then , almost crossly . `` It 's only a little way . '' Thus it happened that Mrs. Carew on that bright September morning occupied for the first time in months the Carew pew in the very fashionable and elegant church to which she had gone as a girl , and which she still supported liberally -- so far as money went . To Pollyanna that Sunday morning service was a great wonder and joy .