When Don, the wonderful cad, he, decided to save the captured "maiden" as he thought was being kidnapped by the monks on horseback, drawing her carriage he was accosted and challenged by a very unusual foe. This is a very important encounter as it is the first that Don Quixote doesn't completely fail at. Not only does he seem to be an apparent equal in combat, Quixote, though by chance and folly, ends up defeating this man, and leaves his fate to the "rescued" woman.
Not only was this man a proper challenge to Don, he is also somewhat distant from reality. He attacks Don at the insistence that he is, indeed, a gentleman. He defends his honor in a way that reflect the same chivalrous values of Quixote's delusional world. Significant and strange it is that the first person who seems to share similar values to the wonderfully confused Don his first true success, especially in Quixote's mind.
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