The correct answer here is the flashback. After the soldiers sent him over the bridge to hang we enter a flashback sequence where we find out how Peyton got to the point where we first meet him. We find out that he was tricked by a disgraced Union soldier and he interfered with the railroad and the punishment for that is death by hanging.
The epigram that Algernon uses in his last line provides a critique about. how the rules of Victorian society were not very strict and were not taken seriously. ... how the rules of Victorian society dictated many things, even what was proper to read.
Summary of plot: The Price of Child is a fictionalized account of a young woman,traveling with her slave owner and two of her three children,who takes the bold step of declaring her freedom and beginning a new life as a free woman.Philadelphia in 1855 is the main setting for this story.
