KIKI-THE-DEMURE

Purr-rr-rr!...There you are!...It's somewhat late ...Toby attacked me; it'she who's broken everything. I believe he went mad from hunger.... Yousmell good, of grass and the twilight. You sat down on some wild thyme.Come!...Tell your Master to carry me on his shoulder--the meat will beoverdone, I'm afraid. You'll carve the chicken somewhat quickly, won't you,and you'll keep the browned skin for me? If you wish I'll stretch out mypaw like a spoon, which knows how to take up the littlest morsels, andcarry them to my mouth with that human gesture that makes you laughso--you and He.... Come!

T0BY-D0G Hiii ... hiii ... there you are at last! I'm so unhappy whenyou're away. You banished me ... you didn't love me ... The lamp felldown all by itself ... Come! I'm awfully hungry, but I'll gladly gowithout dinner, if you'll promise to take me with you always whereveryou go ... yes, even out in the twilight, though it makes me sad, I'llwillingly follow you there ... my nose close, close to the hem of yourdress....

SHE, (_disarmed and very indifferent to the felineaclysm_)