When does she ignore the horse's needs? When she realises the hired horse has gone lame, she dismounts and walks it back to the stables, only to discover the horse was faking it because it had decided it wanted to go home.
And Nicola admits Lawrie is a much better rider than she is, so she can't be that bad, and they'd both been riding for a term at the beginning of Falconer's Lure. Though I'll admit she didn't show herself off especially well in the hunting, she also didn't mess up either.
Plus, although Nicola expects Lawrie to shirk her duties with The Idiot Boy, at the beginning of Attic Term, Nicola thinks, "Now that The Idiot Boy was at last half [Laurie's], she had, surprisingly, developed a genuine affection for him. She not only fed him tidbits and humoured his fears, she stayed with him while he was being shod (supposing this to be as disagreeable for him as the dentist was for her) and was prepared, not only to groom him when Fred Studdart, the stableman, would allow this, but even do the mucking out." So... sounds like she's not that bad.
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Date: 2005-08-30 08:37 pm (UTC)And Nicola admits Lawrie is a much better rider than she is, so she can't be that bad, and they'd both been riding for a term at the beginning of Falconer's Lure. Though I'll admit she didn't show herself off especially well in the hunting, she also didn't mess up either.
Plus, although Nicola expects Lawrie to shirk her duties with The Idiot Boy, at the beginning of Attic Term, Nicola thinks, "Now that The Idiot Boy was at last half [Laurie's], she had, surprisingly, developed a genuine affection for him. She not only fed him tidbits and humoured his fears, she stayed with him while he was being shod (supposing this to be as disagreeable for him as the dentist was for her) and was prepared, not only to groom him when Fred Studdart, the stableman, would allow this, but even do the mucking out." So... sounds like she's not that bad.