interrupted Peter suddenly . `` You ai n't old enough to have a beau . How can you know ? '' The Story Girl looked at Peter with a frown . She did not like to be interrupted when telling a story . `` Those are not things one KNOWS about , '' she said with dignity . `` One FEELS about them . '' Peter , crushed but not convinced , subsided , and the Story Girl went on . `` Finally , Margaret ran away with Alan , and they were married in Charlottetown . Alan intended to take his wife with him to California in the Fanny . If it was a hard journey for a man it was harder still for a woman , but Margaret would have dared anything for Alan 's sake . They had three days -- ONLY three days -- of happiness , and then the blow fell . The crew and the passengers of the Fanny refused to let Captain Dunbar take his wife with him . They told him he must leave her behind . And all his prayers were of no avail . They say he stood on the deck of the Fanny and pleaded with the men while the tears ran down his face ; but they would not yield , and he had to leave Margaret behind . Oh , what a parting it was ! '' There was heartbreak in the Story Girl 's voice and tears came into our eyes . There , in the green bower of Uncle Stephen 's Walk , we cried over the pathos of a parting whose anguish had been stilled for many years . `` When it was all over , Margaret 's father and mother forgave her , and she went back home to wait -- to WAIT .
Oh , it is so dreadful just XXXXX WAIT , and do nothing else .
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