"I suppose we had better go back." "If your majesty decrees," said Nap.
He pulled the mare round and stood motionless, waiting for her to pass.
He sat arrogantly at his ease.

She could not fail to note that his horsemanship was magnificent.

The mare stood royally as though she bore a king.

The man's very insignificance of bulk seemed to make him the more superb.
"Will you deign to lead the way ?" he said.
And Anne passed him with a vague sense of uneasiness that almost amounted to foreboding.

For it seemed to her as if for those few moments he had imposed his will upon hers, had without effort overthrown all barriers of conventional reserve, and had made her acknowledge in him the mastery of man.
Rejoining the hunt, she made her first deliberate attempt to avoid him, an attempt that was so far successful that for the next hour she saw nothing of him beyond casual glimpses.