The Hansom Accident

There was screaming, yelling, and barking to be heard for miles around. The hansom had indeed tipped when it went in the ditch, but had not flipped completely over. Stashia was growling and barking and standing in front of Marlee. The ladies had stopped screaming and yelling and were about the business of getting out of the hansom without breaking their bones. Remember they had on those humongous gowns. The driver had fallen off the top of the hansom and was grumbling something fierce.
"There is Marlee! I knew that was her. Hurry quick, Lady Kathleen, let's get her away from that big wrinkled dog. He is going to eat the little lass up!"
By the time that the two ladies had gotten closer to Marlee, Stashia was going to town with her growling and barking. She wasn't about to let anyone close to her little friend.
About that time there was a terrible commotion coming down the road. There was Lady Bonita, the butler, and the maids. the cooks and the stablemen all running down the road. They had been looking all over for Marlee. When they were searching in the garden they heard the terrible noise coming from down the road. Now they were making a terrible fuss because they were yelling at Stashia and the hansom driver and the two ladies that were pulling themselves up out of the ditch. Grandma Lu said, "The whole thing was just a noisy mess!" The children laughed and Arianna said, Grandma Lu, what happened, did anyone get hurt?"
Grandma Lu chuckled and said, "Well that Lady Bonita wasn't anyone to mess around with. She said, "You get yourselves away from my granddaughter! I will call the constable and have you put away forever. Get away, I tell you! How dare you try to take her away from me again!"
Well, Lady Kathleen had had just about enough of this caterwauling. She said, "If you were my pirates on my ship I would have you walking the plank and into the brink for you! Enough! I am Lady Kathleen Taylor, your cousin, I'll have you know. This is my ward, Miss Lexie. We are here to find Marlee whom I was going to adopt and to find birthright papers for Miss Lexie. Now if you would act like a lady as your title suggests, you would invite us in to your so called house and offer us something to eat and drink. I am hot, dirty, bruised and very angry! I am sure that Miss Lexie is as well. Now, do I have to give your servants orders or are you capable of doing it yourself? We have business to attend to."
Marlee was crying and sobbing. She kept crying, "Cap'n Cap'n, take me home, please please, take me home!"
Lady Kathleen told Marlee to hang on for awhile while she and her grandmother had a visit. However, things weren't quite as easy for Lady Kathleen as they were on board ship. Her pirates obeyed her easily, but Lady Bonita, would not budge. She told them to be on their way and that was final.
Lady Kathleen had one more idea. She handed Lady Bonita one of her calling cards to prove to her that she was indeed her cousin, Kathleen.
At long last she told them that she would give them a few minutes to tell her their story and then they would be out.
Well, Lady Kathleen had other ideas. She had no intention of going anywhere. She went back to the hansom driver and asked him to take the carriage and the horse to the stables. She would make sure he was paid very well. She whispered something in his ear, he gave a small smile and she and Lexie were on their way into the huge mansion that Lady Bonita called home.