It _is_ wretched!" Her anger did not last long, nor did her resentment.

She reproached herself for the tart replies that had inflamed Jack.

Never again would she forget herself! "But he--he makes me furious," she cried, in sudden excuse for herself.
"What did he say?
'That club-footed cowboy Moore'!...

Oh, that was vile.
He's heard, then, that poor Wilson has a bad foot, perhaps permanently crippled....

If it's true....