`` Owen ! Lord ha ' mercy on us ! Owen ! '' I said , just like that , going cold all over , for it 's the truth that I thought it was his spirit come back to forbid that unholy marriage . But he sprang right in , and caught my wrinkled old hands in a grasp that was of flesh and blood . `` Aunt Rachel , I 'm not too late ? '' he said , savage-like . `` Tell me I 'm in time . '' I looked up at him , standing over me there , tall and handsome , no change in him except he was so brown and had a little white scar on his forehead ; and , though I could n't understand at all , being all bewildered-like , I felt a great deep thankfulness . `` No , you 're not too late , '' I said . `` Thank God , '' said he , under his breath . And then he pulled me into the parlor and shut the door . `` They told me at the station that Phillippa was to be married to Mark Foster to-day . I could n't believe it , but I came here as fast as horse-flesh could bring me . Aunt Rachel , it ca n't be true ! She ca n't care for Mark Foster , even if she had forgotten me ! '' `` It 's true enough that she is to marry Mark , '' I said , half-laughing , half-crying , `` but she does n't care for him . Every beat of her heart is for you . It 's all her stepma 's doings . Mark has got a mortgage on the place , and he told Isabella Clark that , if Phillippa would marry him , he 'd burn the mortgage , and , if she would n't , he 'd foreclose .
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