They must be robbers! How else should they want a knife in a snowstorm?
Why else should they have stopped the carriage?
She gave a little cry of alarm.

Aggie dropped the hoof she held, and went to the window.
"What's yer wull, mem ?" she asked.
"What's the matter ?" the lady returned in a trembling voice, but not a little reassured at the sight, as she crossed the range of one of the lamps, of the face of a young girl.

"Why doesn't the coachman go on ?" "He canna, mem.

The horse canna win throu the snaw.

They hae ba's o' 't i' their feet, an' they canna get a grip wi' them, nae mair nor ye cud yersel', mem, gien the soles o' yer shune war roon' an' made o'ice.