Which detail from “A Ride in the Night” best supports the inference that John Clark would prefer to be the one to deliver the horses, rather than Will?



“‘Oh, if only I had not dropped that stone on my foot last week!’”

“He looked hard at Will. ‘Yes, he’s too young,’ John Clark agreed.”

“‘Listen carefully to me,’ said John Clark. ‘You must carry out my directions to the letter.’”


“‘What better password is there for a man with a son on the Kentucky frontier?’”