He did not think Mr. Malcolm MacPherson was a fit person for me to marry once . But that was long ago , when Mr. Malcolm MacPherson was very poor . He is in very comfortable circumstances now . '' `` Tell us about it , Aunt Olivia , '' said Peggy . She did not look at me , which was my salvation . Had I caught Peggy 's eye when Aunt Olivia said `` Mr. Malcolm MacPherson '' in that tone I must have laughed , willy-nilly . `` When I was a girl the MacPhersons used to live across the road from here . Mr. Malcolm MacPherson was my beau then . But my family -- and your father especially -- dear me , I do hope he wo n't be very cross -- were opposed to his attentions and were very cool to him . I think that was why he never said anything to me about getting married then . And after a time he went away , as I have said , and I never heard anything from him directly for many a year . Of course , his sister sometimes gave me news of him . But last June I had a letter from him . He said he was coming home to settle down for good on the old Island , and he asked me if I would marry him . I wrote back and said I would . Perhaps I ought to have consulted your father , but I was afraid he would think I ought to refuse Mr. Malcolm MacPherson . '' `` Oh , I do n't think father will mind , '' said Peggy reassuringly . `` I hope not , because , of course , I would consider it my duty in any case to fulfil the promise I have given to Mr. Malcolm MacPherson . He will be in Grafton next week , the guest of his sister , Mrs. John Seaman , across the bridge . '' Aunt Olivia said that exactly as if she were reading it from the personal column of the Daily Enterprise .
`` When is the wedding XXXXX be ? ''
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