Amazon.com description: Product Description: "[...]down for me to ride while here—met with a mishap. His foot went through a hole in the bridge, and in his struggle to extricate it, he broke his leg. Mr. Pegram came along and released the poor beastie's foot, but it was too late. So he insisted upon my taking his mare, and showed me that I couldn't refuse. He sent his servant to ride on a mule behind me in case I should have trouble with his only partially broken mare. He promised to put my poor horse out of his misery. There. That's all there is to tell." The little speech was made in a tone and with a manner that suggested difficult self-restraint. When it was ended the two good aunts sat for a full minute looking at the girl with eyes that were eloquent of reproach—a reproach that for the moment could find no fit words for its expression. At last the torrent came—not with a rushing violence of speech, but with a steady, overwhelming flow. The girl stood still, seemingly impassive. "Will you not be seated?" presently asked Aunt Sarah. "If you don't mind, I prefer to stand," she answered, in the gentlest, most submissive tone imaginable, for Agatha—angry and outraged[...]".