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 to WAIT , and do nothing else . Margaret waited for nearly a year . How long it must have seemed to her ! And at last there came a letter -- but not from Alan . Alan was DEAD . He had died in California and had been buried there . While Margaret had been thinking of him and longing for him and praying for him he had been lying in his lonely , faraway grave . '' Cecily sprang up , shaking with sobs . `` Oh , do n't -- do n't go on , '' she implored . `` I CA N'T bear any more . '' `` There is no more , '' said the Story Girl . `` That was the end of it -- the end of everything for Margaret . It did n't kill HER , but her heart died . '' `` I just wish I 'd hold of those fellows who would n't let the Captain take his wife , '' said Peter savagely . `` Well , it was awful said , '' said Felicity , wiping her eyes . `` But it was long ago and we ca n't do any good by crying over it now .
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