"Well, besides Diana, she was called Cynthia, Delia, Ancia, Orthia and several other names—"
"And all of 'em pretty, too!"
"And she was passionately fond of hunting."
"And didn't like men overmuch, did she?"
"Well, it appears not. She changed Actaeon into a stag and had him devoured by her dogs—"
"Which wasn't very ladylike, Peregrine—that was coming it a bit too strong, I think! Why did she do it? Poor young man!"
"Because he spied upon her—at her toilet."
"Was that all? d'ye mean he catches her undoin' her curl papers?"
"She was—bathing!"
"Oh!" said Diana. "Well, poor young man! She'd got modesty pretty bad,
I think, and if all goddesses are like her—"