1. Loneliness and dissatisfaction.
2. Hunger for forbidden foods (human flesh, etc.).
3. Scorn and hate of fellow men, general or specific.
4. Occult curiosity.
5. Simon-pure insanity (Satanist complex).
Are any or all of these traits to be found in werewolf?
Find one and ask it.
That was quite enough lycanthropy for the present, so far as I was concerned. I drew a book of Mark Twain from the shelf—I seem to remember it as Tom Sawyer Abroad—and read all the morning. Noon came, and I was about to ask the judge's negro servant for some lunch, when he appeared in the door of the study.
"Someone with a message, sah," he announced, and drew aside to admit Susan Gird.