She then returns.
If the victim be small, a Clothes-moth, for instance, it is consumed on the spot, at the place where it was captured.

But, for a prize of some importance, on which she hopes to feast for many an hour, sometimes for many a day, the Spider needs a sequestered dining-room, where there is naught to fear from the stickiness of the network.

Before going to it, she first makes her prey turn in the converse direction to that of the original rotation.

Her object is to free the nearest spokes, which supplied pivots for the machinery.

They are essential factors which it behoves her to keep intact, if need be by sacrificing a few cross-bars.
It is done; the twisted ends are put back into position.