She is both a horsewoman and a cyclist, but while hunting, her skirt is ripped off in a fall and carried off by her steed.
Thus, before he has set eyes on his bride, his fate is tied to hers at the moment of seeing the symbolic steed.
In the image, a woman rides through the park on her beribboned black steed.
I am not unmindful of the fact that many steed owners are good em-ployers.
Whoever would want to ride on such a ramshackle steed?
It is shutting the door after the steed has bolted.
It looks a little like locking this particular door after the steed has been stolen.
But while the grass grows the steed starves.
