I can do so in half a dozen words.

Caught in the storm and unable to find a conveyance, I sought shelter in this carriage, which being the last on the file, offered the only refuge of which I could avail myself unobserved.

While waiting for the tempest to abate, I fell asleep; and but for the chance which led you to mistake me for another, I must have been discovered when you entered the carriage." "Then, finding yourself so mistaken, Monsieur, would it not have been more honorable to undeceive me than to usurp a conversation which...." "Madame, I dared not.

I feared to alarm you--I hoped to find some means of escape, and...." "_Mon Dieu_! what means?
How are you to escape as it is?
How leave the carriage without being seen by my servants ?" I had not thought of this, nor of the dilemma in which my presence must place her.
"I can open the door softly," said I, "and jump out unperceived." "Impossible, at the pace we are going! You would break your neck." I shook my head, and laughed bitterly.
"Have no fear of that, Madame," I said.

"Those who least value their necks never happen to break them.