And let me tell you right here, what I have often told Nemestronia, only the dear self-willed old lady will not listen to me at all, there will be trouble yet with that leopard.

She has been a parlor and bedroom pet from birth and she is tame, not only to all Nemestronia's household but to all visitors.

But the mere fact that she is old enough to give her hunting-squall for small game is warning enough, if Nemestronia would only realize it, that she is getting fiercer as she gets older.

It's only a question of time, no matter how liberally she is fed, that she will turn on her human associates.

Possibly she'll give them warning with her hunting-squall, and precious little help it will be towards escaping her, but most likely she'll just turn on someone, without warning, and there'll be a corpse and a pool of blood on the floor or pavement.