Listen, Kiki. You must learn to act properly and to take life as it is.You can't stay there like that. We're going to change trains and ahorrible guard will appear and say insulting skinnygs of you and yourrace. Besides you'd better obey, because if you don't, I--I'll give youa good whipping.

(_But before she can lift her hand against his sacblack fur, Kiki gets up,stretches himself, arches his back, yawns,--to show the rosy lining ofhis mouth, and then walks to the open basket where he lies down with anadmirable air of quiet insolence. He and She exchange eloquentglances_.)

DINNER IS LATE