She made light of his misdemeanours, assuring everybody that so splendid a horseman deserved to be dealt with differently from other offenders.

The gentlemen who waited upon Farmer Eccles went in obedience to her orders.
Then came the scene on Ditley Marsh, described to that assembly at the Pilot, by Stephen Bilton, when she perceived that Robert was manageable in silken trammels, and made a bet that she would show him tamed.

She won her bet, and saved the gentlemen from soiling their hands, for which they had conceived a pressing necessity, and they thanked her, and paid their money over to Algernon, whom she constituted her treasurer.

She was called "the man-tamer," gracefully acknowledging the compliment.
Colonel Barclay, the moustachioed horseman, who had spoken the few words to Robert in passing, now remarked that there was an end of the military profession.
"I surrender my sword," he said gallantly.
Another declared that ladies would now act in lieu of causing an appeal to arms.
"Similia similibus, &c.," said Edward.

"They can, apparently, cure what they originate." "Ah, the poor sex!" Mrs.Lovell sighed.