He seemed too cowed to approach it.

He shrunk away, and with a piteous "miaou" came over and rubbed himself against my ankles.

I took him up in my arms, and he nestled there content.

Mr.Trelawny spoke again: "You are sure of what you say! You believe it with all your soul ?" Margaret's face had lost the abstracted look; it now seemed illuminated with the devotion of one to whom is given to speak of great things.
She answered in a voice which, though quiet, vibrated with conviction: "I know it! My knowledge is beyond belief!" Mr.Trelawny spoke again: "Then you are so sure, that were you Queen Tera herself, you would be willing to prove it in any way that I might suggest ?" "Yes, any way!" the answer rang out fearlessly.

He spoke again, in a voice in which was no note of doubt: "Even in the abandonment of your Familiar to death--to annihilation." She paused, and I could see that she suffered--suffered horribly.
There was in her eyes a hunted look, which no man can, unmoved, see in the eyes of his beloved.