Lois wasn't hurt at all, wonderful to say; but, naturally, she's in great distress, because she blames herself for the whole thing." "How so ?" asked Gifford.
"Well, of course," Mrs.Dale answered, rubbing her little red nose with her handkerchief, and with a suspicious mist in her eyes,--"of course it really was her fault, only we mustn't let her know we think so.

You see, she was driving.

(I've always said women don't know how to drive; they're too inconsequent.) She wasn't paying attention to her horse, and let a rein slip.

Before she could pick it up, the horse shied at a newspaper blowing along the road.

Well, you know the rest.