Maddie was embarrassed by the questions Peggy asked Wanda as she herself was a poor girl. She used to wear old clothes given handed down by others. But she was different from Wanda as she was not as poor as her and also had a few friends in the class. Maddie considered herself to be different from Wanda in the sense that she would never claim that she had a hundred dresses. Yet she was afraid that others might make fun of her too.