‘Hate them?—I thought you’d come to see an illustration.’ ‘And pray what was your notion of an illustration?’ ‘Well, another cat would have had to be killed, at least.’ ‘And do you suppose that I would have sat still while a cat was being killed for my—edification?’ ‘It needn’t necessarily have been a cat, but something would have had to be killed,—how are you going to illustrate the death-dealing propensities of a weapon of that sort without it?’ ‘Is it possible that you imagine that I came here to see something killed?’ ‘Then for what did you come?’
