KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (_laughing cruelly_)

Nor do I. I can only eat live birds, and as for the tiny mice, I preferto swallow them, squeak and all....

T0BY-D0G

Why does it amuse you to horrify me? You've a certain vanity that Ican't comprehend. It consists in exaggerating cruelties that are alreadyreal enough. You call me the last of the Romanticists, aren't you thefirst of the Sadics?