Calm as judges, those women were.
But they made notes; Moadine read them to us.
"Please tell me if I have the facts correct," she said.

"In your country--and in others too ?" "Yes," we admitted, "in most civilized countries." "In most civilized countries a kind of animal is kept which is no longer useful--" "They are a protection," Terry insisted.

"They bark if burglars try to get in." Then she made notes of "burglars" and went on: "because of the love which people bear to this animal." Zava interrupted here.

"Is it the men or the women who love this animal so much ?" "Both!" insisted Terry.
"Equally ?" she inquired.
And Jeff said, "Nonsense, Terry--you know men like dogs better than women do--as a whole." "Because they love it so much--especially men.

This animal is kept shut up, or chained." "Why ?" suddenly asked Somel.