Since she could only discuss this grievance with the Terror and Wiggins, they heard enough about it.
Indeed, her complaints were at last no small factor in her patient brother's resolve to take action; and he called her and Wiggins to a council.
He opened the discussion by saying: "We've got to have kittens, or cats.

We can't have any pocket-money for 'overseering' till there's something to overseer." "And that splendid cats' home we've made stopping empty all the time," said Erebus in her most bitterly aggrieved tone.
"I don't mind that.

I'm sick of hearing about it," said the Terror coldly.

"But I do want pocket-money; and besides, Aunt Amelia will soon be wanting to know what's happening to the home; and she'll make a fuss if there aren't any cats in it.

So we must have cats." "Well, I tell you what it is: we must take cats.