[SPAM] a chronic case of old-maidism, " said father im

Ame up to us, pale and prim and determined, and told us that there was
to be no wedding. We could not pretend surprise, but Peggy ventured a
faint protest. "Oh, Aunt Olivia, do you think you have done right?" "It
was the only thing I could do," said Aunt Olivia stonily. "I could not
marry Mr. Malcolm MacPherson and I told him so. Please tell your
father--and kindly say nothing more to me about the matter." Then Aunt
Olivia went downstairs, got a broom, and swept up the mud Mr. Malcolm
MacPherson had tracked over the steps. Peggy and I went home and told
father. We felt very flat, but there was nothing to be done or said.
Father laughed at the whole thing, but I could not laugh. I was sorry
for Mr. Malcolm MacPherson and, though I was angry with her, I was sorry
for Aunt Olivia, too. Plainly she felt badly enough over her vanished
hopes and plans, but she had developed a strange and baffling reserve
which nothing could pierce. "It's nothing but a chronic case of
old-maidism," said father impatiently. Things were very dull for a week.
We saw no more of Mr. Malcolm MacPherson and we missed him dreadfully.
Aunt Olivia was inscrutable, and worked with fierceness at superfluous
tasks. One evening father came home with some news. "Malcolm MacPherson
is leaving on the 7:30 train for the west," he said. "He has rented the
Avonlea place and he's off. They say he is mad as a hatter at the trick
Olivia played on him." After tea Peggy and I went over to see Aunt
Olivia, who had asked our advice about a wrapper. She was sewing as for
dear life, and her face was primmer and colder than ever. I wondered if
she knew of Mr. Malcolm MacPherson's departure. Delicacy forbade me to
mention it but Peggy had no such scruples. "Well, Aunt Olivia, your beau
is off," she announced cheerfully. "You won't be bothered with him
again. He is leaving on the mail train for the west." Aunt Olivia
dropped her sewing and stood up. I have never seen anything like the
transformation that came over her. It was so thorough and sudden as to
be almost uncanny. The old maid vanished completely, and in her place
was a woman, full to the lips with primitive emotion and

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