"I think you'd better give me that note back," she said curtly.

"We certainly don't want anyone here of the kind you have just described.

From something Godfrey said to me it's clear that Mrs.Crofton's horror of dogs is just a pose she thinks makes her interesting.

Why, her husband bred terriers; Flick actually came from there! And Godfrey says that she herself had a little dog called by the absurd name of 'Boo-boo' to which she was devoted." "'Boo-boo' was the exception that proves the rule," answered Jack hotly.
"As for Colonel Crofton, it was beastly of him to breed terriers, knowing how his wife felt about dogs! She told me herself she would never have married him if she had known there was any likelihood of that coming to pass.

She feels about dogs as some people feel about cats." "I never heard such nonsense!" "Nonsense ?" he repeated in an enraged tone.