Her mother asked for no explanation.
The passengers stared at her; the majority as if amused, though. One or two talked as if they thought their rights had been infringed.
"We were sorry," Mrs. Redmond said later, "to go without you, but it was better for you to be left than for the rest of us to lose the train; we knew you could go back to Bear River, and we could have telegraphed you what to do; we knew you would be equal to the occasion."
"So I was."
"Well, we hardly expected you to stop a train."
"Oh, the train stopped me."
"'All's well that ends well'"
Later in the day Martine came over to sit beside Amy.
"I'm afraid, Amy, that I may have punctured your tire yesterday; the road to the chapel was so very stony."
"Tires are bound to be punctured," replied Amy, "and if this hadn't happened when it did, I shouldn't have had the fun of stopping a train."