Getting a past activity's card attachment

Hi,

Our parent bot displays an adaptive card with a submit button.  When the user clicks on the submit button, a skill dialog bot's skill is invoked.  When the parent bot invokes a skill, sometimes the skill bot does not complete the invocation and nothing gets returned to the parent.  When the user tries the card again, the action ends up with the skill dialog bot because control was not returned to the parent.  

In the following code snippet, our skill dialog bot's processActivity is routing processing logic based on the ActivityType

    async processActivity(stepContext) {
        const activity = stepContext.context.activity;
        switch (activity.type) {
            case ActivityTypes.Event:
                return await this.onEventActivity(stepContext);
			default:
				// We didn't get an event name we can handle.
				await stepContext.context.sendActivity(
					`Unrecognized EventName: "${ stepContext.context.activity.name }".`,
					undefined,
					InputHints.IgnoringInput
				);
				return { status: DialogTurnStatus.complete };
			}
        }
    }

When the control is stuck with the skill dialog bot, we see the 'Unrecognized Eventname' in our logs.  To remediate this, we replaced the default section with the following

            default:
                return await stepContext.context.sendActivity({
                    type: ActivityTypes.EndOfConversation,
                    code: EndOfConversationCodes.CompletedSuccessfully,
                    value: {
                        action: 'abort',
                        conversationId: activity.conversationId,
                        activityId: activity.activityId
                    }
                });

Our parent bot has a finalStep that processes the results returned from the skill dialog bot.  

if (stepContext.result.action === 'abort') {
                    console.log('ooops, skil dialog bot encountered an error and triggered an abort')
                    await stepContext.context.sendActivity('I am sorry but looks like one of my skills encountered an error.  Can you try again?')
                } 

Instead of displaying a separate message to the user, we were hoping there would be a way to retrieve the card attachment of the activity the user acted on so that we can append the "retry" message to the card.

Does anyone know if we can retrieve a past activity in a conversation based on an activity Id? 

Thank You