Mr. Shelmardine came bravely on . I felt my heart beating to my very finger tips . He halted by the fragment of an old stranded boat . Aunt had turned her back on him . I ventured on a look . He lifted his hat with a twinkle in his eye . Just then Aunt said , icily : `` We will go home , Marguer_ite . That creature evidently intends to persist in his intrusion . '' Home we came accordingly . This morning he signalled across : `` Letter from Connie . Message for you . I mean to deliver it personally . Do you ever go to church ? '' Now , I do go regularly to church at home . But Aunt Martha and Mrs. Saxby are both such rigid church people that they would not darken the doors of the Methodist church at Plover Sands for any consideration . Needless to say , I am not allowed to go either . But it was impossible to make this long explanation , so I merely replied : `` Not here . '' `` Will you not go tomorrow morning ? '' `` Aunt will not let me . '' `` Coax her . ''
`` Coaxing never has any effect XXXXX her . ''
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