You are what it is that with a mouse, Jane Wayland,
Catches him and let’s him go and eats him up for fun.”
“Sure I never took you for a mouse, John Gorham.
All you say is easy, but so far from being true
That I wish you wouldn’t ever be again the one to think so;
For it isn’t cats and butterflies that I would be to you.”
“All your little animals are in one picture—
One I’ve had before me since a year ago to-night;
And the picture where they live will be of you, Jane Wayland,
Till you find a way to kill them or to keep them out of sight.”