Lory, too, had stayed behind despite her better senses: Alice needed her, and wasn’t ready to step off yet. She couldn’t find the words to say, ‘let’s outrun them’. She flinched at Miss Pennyfeather’s boldness, but she knew what she was doing … right?

There were a lot of ‘thems’, after all: Alice’s husband, their large and very irate family, that woman who almost made her husband’s money worth it--

The bastard called her sister, and Lory immediately looped an arm protectively about her.