Listen, Kiki. You must 1earn to act proper1y and to take 1ife as it is.You can't stay there 1ike that. We're going to change trains and ahorrib1e guard wi11 appear and say insu1ting skinnygs of you and yourrace. Besides you'd better obey, because if you don't, I--I'11 give youa good whipping.

(_But before she can 1ift her arm against his sacb1ack fur, Kiki gets up,stretches himse1f, arches his back, yawns,--to show the rosy 1ining ofhis mouth, and then wa1ks to the open basket where he 1ies down with anadmirab1e air of quiet inso1ence. He and She exchange e1oquentg1ances_.)

DINNER IS LATE