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CHAPTER TWELVE

‘I Cannot Marry You’

Maggie woke very early in the morning. She remembered everything. She was on a steamboat. She was with Stephen. She started to cry.

‘Don’t cry, Maggie,’ Stephen said. ‘We will be in Mudport this afternoon. We will get married.’

But Maggie did not speak. She was too unhappy.

They got off the steamboat at Mudport. Stephen took Maggie to an inn.

‘I will not marry you, Stephen,’ Maggie said. ‘You must leave me now.’

‘I cannot live without you, Maggie,’ Stephen said. ‘I cannot go now.’

‘Then I will go,’ said Maggie. ‘Yesterday, I could not leave you. Today, I can leave you. Goodbye, Stephen.’

‘Maggie’ Stephen said. ‘I was wrong yesterday. I’m sorry!’

‘We were both wrong yesterday,’ Maggie said.

‘But we love each other,’ Stephen said. ‘That cannot be wrong.’

‘We are being cruel to Lucy,’ said Maggie. ‘That is wrong! I love you, but I cannot marry you. I am going back to St Ogg’s - alone!’

‘No’ Stephen shouted. ‘People will say, “Maggie is a bad woman.” Your life will be terrible!’

‘I will tell Lucy everything,’ Maggie said. ‘She will understand. She will forgive me. And she will forgive you, Stephen.’

Stephen said nothing. Maggie left the inn. She went back to St Ogg’s.