We shall then find out, to begin with, whether Silvio objects to all mummy cats, or only to this one in particular." "I don't know," she said doubtfully.

"Father's instructions seem very uncompromising." Then after a pause she went on: "But of course under the circumstances anything that is to be ultimately for his good must be done.

I suppose there can't be anything very particular about the mummy of a cat." Doctor Winchester said nothing.

He sat rigid, with so grave a look on his face that his extra gravity passed on to me; and in its enlightening perturbation I began to realise more than I had yet done the strangeness of the case in which I was now so deeply concerned.
When once this thought had begun there was no end to it.

Indeed it grew, and blossomed, and reproduced itself in a thousand different ways.