Why the big box around my "replied" text?

I was replying to an email the other day and instead of just having my text appear as it usually does, this time I had a big box around it with an X in the upper left-hand corner, allowing me to delete it in its entirety. In addition to that, my reply wasn't in a different color text as I've set it up to be - it was in black.
I'd never seen this before. Can you tell me what this was about?
Thanks.
Chip

Yes, I saw this yesterday on my wife's macbook pro. I don't think she did anything out of the ordinary for it to appear - just typing in a reply to an email. My solution was to convert the message to plain text. But why did it appear in the first place?
There have been other messages mentioning the "box with the X", but these have been black-filled boxes that occur when sending a document from another application to Mail, or Mailing an event from iCal etc. In my wife's case, and I think Chip's too, there was no attachment involved, just typing in text.
Anyone?

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