"Frightened—" from Nurse.
"Fr-ightened. But I liked the leopards best."
"Why?"
"Because they're pre-itty."
"You can't always trust—pretty things."
"Can't you tre-ust—leopards—General Drake?"
The General was not sure, and presently he fell into silence. His mind was on a pretty woman whom he could not trust.
That night he said to Jean, "Hilda is going to France."
"Oh—how do you know?"
"I met her in the Park."