Pollyanna goes to Dr. Chilton to collect Mrs. Snow’s pills. Dr. Chilton seems embarrassed by Pollyanna’s visiting his home and tells her that it is not really a home to him. She supplies Mr. Pendleton’s excuse that women and children are what make a home and asks Dr. Chilton why he does not get married or adopt Jimmy Bean. She then rushes to tell him that it was not Aunt Polly that Mr. Pendleton was pursuing. When Pollyanna tells Dr. Chilton that lots of women would be glad to marry him, he laughs and tells her that has not been the case. However, he mentions that there is one woman in the world that he should very much like to marry.

A few days later, Pollyanna is hurrying home from school and is knocked unconscious by an automobile.

Both Aunt Polly and Nancy are bereft. Aunt Polly summons Dr. Warren who is uncertain of whether Pollyanna has suffered internal damage. When Pollyanna regains consciousness, she sees that Aunt Polly has put her under the charge of a nurse, Miss Hunt, who gives her white pills that send her to sleep.