You can doubtless ride ?' This opened a door on the matter of their previous dispute, and the fellow appeared life-sized in his true colours.

'That's what I've been telling her: that, damn her! she must ride!' he broke out.

'And if the gentleman's of the same mind, why, damme, you shall!' As he said so, he made a snatch at her wrist, which she evaded with horror.
I stepped between them.
'No, sir,' said I; 'the lady shall not.' He turned on me raging.

'And who are you to interfere ?' he roared.
'There is here no question of who I am,' I replied.

'I may be the devil or the Archbishop of Canterbury for what you know, or need know.