KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (coldly)
Enough I pray, that concerns no one but myself ... and the little cat.
TOBY-DOG
A pretty conquest! It should make you blush—a seven-months-old kitten!
KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (roused)
For me she has all the charm of forbidden fruit and no one dare steal her from me. She is slim as a bean-pole....
TOBY-DOG (aside)
You old rascal!
KIKI-THE-DEMURE
... and long; poised on long legs she walks with the uncertain step common to all young things. She hunts field-mice, shrew-mice—even partridge, and this hard work in the fields has toughened her young muscles and given a rather gloomy expression to her kitten-face.