Every blow made Lorraine wince, and she made the wincing perfectly apparent to Al, in the hope that he would take some notice of it and give her a chance to tell him what she thought of him without opening the conversation herself.
But Al did not say anything.

When the time came--as even Lorraine saw that it must--when Snake refused to attempt a steep slope, Al still said nothing.

He untied her ankles from the stirrups and her hands from the saddle horn, carried her in his arms to his own horse and compelled her to mount.

Then he retied her exactly as she had been tied on Snake.
"Skinner knows this trail," he told Lorraine.

"And I'm behind yuh with a gun.