Premise: and she begins ashoving on of her hat in front of the glass, and she was down in two ticks, almost as quick as I was, and I seed her going down the steps and into the taxi, and I heard her call out what I told you." The small boy stopped and replenished his lungs.

Hypothesis: The small boy was much slower than the woman was, he missed seeing her step into the cab.
Relation: contradiction