'We cannot trust the horse with you.

It is quite impossible for you to ride so far alone.

If you will go, you must submit to the attendance of my son, on which I am sorry to think you have so good a claim.

But will you not yet change your mind and be our guest--for the night at least?
We will send a messenger to the castle at earliest dawn.' Scudamore declined the invitation, but with perfect courtesy, for there was that about Roger Heywood which rendered it impossible for any man who was himself a gentleman, whatever his judgment of him might be, to show him disrespect.

And the moment the mare began to move, he felt no further inclination to object to Richard's company at her head, for he perceived that, should she prove in the least troublesome, it would be impossible for him to keep his seat.