Yes. And she also did her best to control him. It was a feat that was much more easily proclaimed than actually accomplished. The end of this story is that she did manage to catch him eventually. [That's important to cover. Betty's struggle for control isn't irrelevant to this story, but it isn't the part that matters most to her. She's explaining this to put Archie's behavior into perspective, after all.]

But the Black Hood first struck the following morning of the town jubilee—where Betty gave her speech, for reference—by going after Archie's father for his adultery. It was ... it remains a rather odd thing to do to a man like Fred Andrews, but it set Archie off. It made him feel like he had to be the one to stop the Black Hood. He was ... determined to do everything he could to protect his father. Anything.