"No! No! If we had met, I could not have forgotten."
"Perhaps in a former state of existence—" and she dimpled deliciously, he thought.
"Let us hope—not as cat and dog."
"If we did, I'm sure you wouldn't have worried me."
"Nature in quadrupeds is strong."
"Besides—I might have been the dog, and you the cat!"
"In which case, I should have been the worried, not the worrier."
"We might have encountered as spiders and beetles."
"Pray don't suggest anything so awful. Nonsense apart—your imagination may be equal to it. Mine isn't."
She laughed, and with one of her quick transitions, asked: "Are you going to do any climbing?"