`` Do you care ? '' she said stupidly . `` Care ! Girls , I shall DIE if Malcolm MacPherson goes away ! I have been mad -- I must have been mad . I have almost died of loneliness since I sent him away . But I thought he would come back ! I must see him -- there is time to reach the station before the train goes if I go by the fields . '' She took a wild step towards the door , but I caught her back with a sudden mind-vision of Aunt Olivia flying bareheaded and distraught across the fields . `` Wait a moment , Aunt Olivia . Peggy , run home and get father to harness Dick in the buggy as quickly as he can . We 'll drive Aunt Olivia to the station . We 'll get you there in time , Aunty . '' Peggy flew , and Aunt Olivia dashed upstairs . I lingered behind to pick up her sewing , and when I got to her room she had her hat and cape on . Spread out on the bed were all the boxes of gifts which Mr. Malcolm MacPherson had brought her , and Aunt Olivia was stringing their contents feverishly about her person . Rings , three brooches , a locket , three chains and a watch all went on -- anyway and anyhow . A wonderful sight it was to see Aunt Olivia bedizened like that ! `` I would never wear them before -- but I 'll put them all on now to show him I 'm sorry , '' she gasped , with trembling lips . When the three of us crowded into the buggy , Aunt Olivia grasped the whip before we could prevent her and , leaning out , gave poor Dick such a lash as he had never felt in his life before .
He went tearing down the steep , stony , fast-darkening road in a fashion which made Peggy and me cry out XXXXX alarm .
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