It would be all in the day 's work then . But as it is -- '' Ismay got up and went out of the room . `` Oh , Max , please , '' I said . `` Will you marry me , Sue ? '' demanded Max sternly . `` If you will agree , I 'll go to Halifax and beard the lion in his den unflinchingly . If necessary , I will take a black street cat to Aunt Cynthia , and swear that it is Fatima . I 'll get you out of the scrape , if I have to prove that you never had Fatima , that she is safe in your possession at the present time , and that there never was such an animal as Fatima anyhow . I 'll do anything , say anything -- but it must be for my future wife . '' `` Will nothing else content you ? '' I said helplessly . `` Nothing . '' I thought hard . Of course Max was acting abominably -- but -- but -- he was really a dear fellow -- and this was the twelfth time -- and there was Anne Shirley ! I knew in my secret soul that life would be a dreadfully dismal thing if Max were not around somewhere . Besides , I would have married him long ago had not Aunt Cynthia thrown us so pointedly at each other 's heads ever since he came to Spencervale . `` Very well , '' I said crossly . Max left for Halifax in the morning . Next day we got a wire saying it was all right . The evening of the following day he was back in Spencervale .
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