"I saved his life, and when you've saved a creature's life you're bound to love it.
It's next thing to giving life.

There's some turrible thoughtless people in the world, Mistress Blythe.

Some of them city folks who have summer homes over the harbor are so thoughtless that they're cruel.
It's the worst kind of cruelty--the thoughtless kind.

You can't cope with it.

They keep cats there in the summer, and feed and pet 'em, and doll 'em up with ribbons and collars.