Premise: So she could only accept the situation .<br>`` Well , anyway , '' she thought , `` I 'll get Mary to point Sara Beaumont out to me , and I 'll store up a description of her in my mind to tell Fran tonight .<br>I must remember to take notice of the colour of her eyes .<br>Fran has always been exercised about that . ''<br>It was mid-forenoon when Frances arrived at Ashland station .<br>Grandmother Newbury 's man , Hiram , was waiting for her with the pony carriage , and Frances heartily enjoyed the three-mile drive to the Bay Shore Farm .<br>Grandmother Newbury came to the door to meet her granddaughter .
Hypothesis: The farm was 3 miles from the station.