But if she sees it near a gate or a door and apparently trying to escape through that, she springs and bounds on it.
Otherwise, if the victim keeps quiet and still, she spends a long time in her approach, seeming to enjoy every breath she draws and to be gloating over her helpless prey." "Just so, gentlemen," Tanno put in, "Agathemer is exact.

I have seen all that over and over." "It is the more astonishing to me," Agathemer went on, "that you have never seen Hedulio divert her attention and entice her away from her victim, even when she is within leaping distance and ready for her final spring.

That, to me, is the only thing I ever saw Hedulio do surpassing his repeated success in taking a bone from a cross dog without resistance from the dog." "Never saw him do it," Tanno declared.

"Never heard of it from Nemestronia, and she'll talk 'leopard' by the hour, if you let her.

Never suspected any such sorcery from Hedulio.