I am sorry for Aunt Olivia, I said. Yes, Peggy, I am. Mr. MacPherson is a splendid man, but Aunt Olivia is a born old maid, and it is outraging her very nature to be anything else. Don't you see how it's hurting her? His big, splendid man-ways are harrowing her very soul up-she can't get out of her little, narrow groove, and it is killing her to be pulled out.