It’s been noted in ASoS that she was a skilled horsewoman (III: 193), and previously Ned noted that she might have carried a sword if Lord Rickard had allowed it (I: 186).
'What is so unusual in you, ' she said, in a didactic tone justifiable in a horsewoman's address to a benighted walker, 'is that your knowledge of certain things should be combined with your ignorance of certain other things'.
Elizabeth, feeling really anxious, was determined to go to her, though the carriage was not to be had; and as she was no horsewoman, walking was her only alternative.
" You see how widely we differ, Sir James. I have made up my mind that I ought not to be a perfect horsewoman, and so I should never correspond to your pattern of a lady" .