"Perhaps so," said Angel. "But tell me,--did you go to the Zoo?"
"You dear child! Yes! I went out of pure love for you."
"Now you needn't be so grown up. You know you wanted to go just for yourself as well. And you saw the monkey-house?"
"Yes."
"And the lions?"
"Yes."
"And the snakes?"
"Yes!"
"Oh, I'd give anything to see the snakes! Did they eat any rabbits when you were there,--fascinate them, and then draw them slowly, slowly in?"
"Angel, what terrible interests you are developing! No, thank goodness, they didn't."