`` then maybe they know how to contain her , '' i said , lifting my elbow away . she could n't leave him in this condition a second time , though . what she did next nearly gave him a stroke . i must be seventy meters up by now . people knew him wherever he went now and he loved it . managing to stay on , he turned the beast around and made off in the opposite direction back to his party . how nice it would be to see him again . he asked , pointing towards the porch . 