You'd think a likely young man, if he met one of them things, would just kill it on general principles, the same as a snake or a spider." "Oh," said Peter, "it's chiefly because they are terrifying to young ladies that we kill them at all.

Yes, there has to be a young lady." He was aware of an accession of dreariness in the certainty that in his case there never could be a young lady.

But Miss Dassonville as she began to walk toward the entrance gave it another turn.
"There _is_ always a young lady.

The difficulty is that it must be a particular one.

No one takes any account of those who were eaten up before the Princess appeared." "But you must grant," said Peter, with an odd sense of defending his own position, "that when one got done with a fight like that, one would be entitled to something particular." "Oh, if it came as a reward," she laughed.