'You've got a cat shut up there.' 'A cat,' said Cyril.

'Oh, my only aunt! A cat!' 'Come in, then,' said Robert.

'It's your own look out.

I advise you not.
Wait a shake, and I'll undo the side gate.' He undid the side gate, and the policeman, very cautiously, came in.

And there in the kitchen, by the light of one candle, with the mewing and the screaming going like a dozen steam sirens, twenty waiting on motor-cars, and half a hundred squeaking pumps, four agitated voices shouted to the policeman four mixed and wholly different explanations of the very mixed events of the evening.
Did you ever try to explain the simplest thing to a policeman?
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