The people who met us that night must have thought we were quite mad . I held on the reins , Peggy gripped the swaying side of the buggy , and Aunt Olivia bent forward , hat and hair blowing back from her set face with its strangely crimson cheeks , and plied the whip . In such a guise did we whirl through the village and over the two-mile station road . When we drove up to the station , where the train was shunting amid the shadows , Aunt Olivia made a flying leap from the buggy and ran along the platform , with her cape streaming behind her and all her brooches and chains glittering in the lights . I tossed the reins to a boy standing near and we followed . Just under the glare of the station lamp we saw Mr. Malcolm MacPherson , grip in hand . Fortunately no one else was very near , but it would have been all the same had they been the centre of a crowd . Aunt Olivia fairly flung herself against him . `` Malcolm , '' she cried , `` do n't go -- do n't go -- I 'll marry you -- I 'll go anywhere -- and I do n't care how much mud you bring in ! '' That truly Aunt Olivia touch relieved the tension of the situation a little . Mr. MacPherson put his arm about her and drew her back into the shadows . `` There , there , '' he soothed . `` Of course I wo n't be going . Do n't cry , Nillie-girl . '' `` And you 'll come right back with me now ? '' implored Aunt Olivia , clinging to him as if she feared he would be whisked away from her yet if she let go for a moment . `` Of course , of course , '' he said . Peggy got a chance home with a friend , and Aunt Olivia and Mr. Malcolm MacPherson and I drove back in the buggy . Mr. MacPherson held Aunt Olivia on his knee because there was no room , but she would have sat there , I think , had there been a dozen vacant seats . She clung to him in the most barefaced fashion , and all her former primness and reserve were swept away completely .
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