The groom fell behind directly.

After they had ridden some distance in silence, Walter broke out: "How beautifully you ride!" "Me!" cried Mary.

"Why, I never had a lesson in my life." "That accounts for it.

Let a lady alone, and she does everything more gracefully than a man; but let some cad undertake to teach her, she distrusts herself and imitates the snob.

If you could only see the women in Hyde Park who have been taught to ride, and compare them with yourself!" "I should learn humility." "No; it would make you vain, if anything could." "You seem inclined to do me that good turn.