While the storm effect was perfectly _wonderful_, she thought it rather detracted from the killing.

She did not believe in lumping big stuff together like that.

Why not have the killing done by moonlight, and use the storm when the murderer was getting away, or something like that?
And as for taking them out on location and making all those storm scenes without telling them in advance so that they could have dry clothes afterwards, she thought it a perfect outrage! If it were not for spoiling the picture, she would quit, she asserted indignantly.

She thought the director had better go back to driving a laundry wagon, which was probably where he came from.
Lone agreed with her, even though he did not know what she was talking about.

He walked as fast as he could, but even so he could not travel the six miles to the ranch very quickly.