And no mere humans could have done the job with such grimly gentle thoroughness as did Lad.

Few dogs, except pointers or setters or collies, will deign to educate their puppies to the duties of life and of field and of house.

But Lad had done the work in a way that left little to be asked for.
When Lady came home, her flighty brain seemed to have forgotten the fact that young Wolf was her once-adored son.

Of her earlier capricious devotion to him, no trace remained.

She sniffed in stand-offish inquiry at him; as at a stranger.