John Pendleton comes to visit Aunt Polly to ask about Pollyanna’s condition.  Aunt Polly tells him about Pollyanna’s paralysis.  Mr. Pendleton assures Aunt Polly that when he’d asked Pollyanna to live with him, she had wanted to be with her instead

Pollyanna has an accident.  She is hit by an automobile on the way home from school.  She wakes up, but can’t feel her legs and is crippled.  How can she play the 'glad' game now?

Sermons and woodboxes lead to interesting developments.

Pollyanna was going to ask Aunt Polly to let her live with Mr. Pendleton, but finds out from Nancy that Aunt Polly likes having her live with her and would miss her if she were gone.  Pollyanna, being the sweet girl she is, decides not to leave Aunt Polly without even asking her the question, then suggests Jimmy Bean live with him.

Pollyanna finds out John Pendleton was not in love with Aunt Polly but was once in love with her mother, but lost her to Pollyanna’s father whom she married.  Mr. Pendleton wants Pollyanna to ask Aunt Polly a question….Will she let Pollyanna come to live with him. 

John Pendleton asks Pollyanna to come and live with him (so he could adopt her).  Since Pollyanna thinks Mr. Pendleton and Miss Polly were once sweethearts, she assumes that Aunt Polly will come, too!  This surprises Mr. Pendleton.

Pollyanna learned about prisms from John Pendleton and teaches him the “glad game”. 

Nancy the maid tells Pollyanna that she thinks John Pendleton and Miss Polly were sweethearts many years ago when they were young.

Pollyanna fixes Miss Polly’s hair, but she didn’t like it when Dr. Chilton sees her looking dressed up pretty.  Dr. Chilton takes Pollyanna to cheer up Mr. Pendleton, who has asked to see her.

Pollyanna cheers up John Pendleton by bringing him jelly.  She also cheers up Dr. Chilton using her "Happy" game.