I should not have suspected it; I never heard a cat speak in all my life.
HINZE.
Because we do not join in every conversation, you think we're nothing but dogs.
GOTTLIEB.
I think your only business is to catch mice.
HINZE.
If we had not, in our intercourse with human beings, got a certain contempt for speech, we could all speak.
GOTTLIEB.
Well, I'll own that! But why don't you give any one an opportunity to discover you?