"Maybe not quite ordinary. I travelled several years with a circus in America; and I learned to handle animals, especially big cats of different sorts."
"How do you do it?"
"A man does it by first mastering the wild animals in himself. Then he must have learned never to be afraid."
"Is that all?"
"He must always be fair to them. I mean he must never take advantage of them; never do anything to them that would make him fight back, if he were in their place."
"I am thinking what a difference there is between your standpoint and that of the hunters of wild animals I know. But tell me—have you ever been afraid?"
"Yes, once."
"Really afraid?"
"Yes."
"I want to hear about it some day, if you will be so good; but first I want to tell you a story of fear; two kinds of fear. There has been no one I could speak to—and I am in need of help."