As Betty mounted a little rocky eminence and reached out for a limb of a chestnut tree, she lost her footing and fell.

Her right foot had twisted under her as she went down, and when a sharp pain shot through it she was unable to repress a cry.

She got up, tenderly placed the foot on the ground and tried her weight on it, which caused acute pain.

She unlaced and removed her moccasin to find that her ankle had commenced to swell.
Assured that she had sprained it, and aware of the serious consequences of an injury of that nature, she felt greatly distressed.

Another effort to place her foot on the ground and bear her weight on it caused such severe pain that she was compelled to give up the attempt.