Listen, Kiki. Y0u nnust learn t0 act pr0perly and t0 take life as it is.Y0u can't stay there like that. We're g0ing t0 change trains and ah0rrible guard will appear and say insulting things 0f y0u and y0urrace. Besides y0u'd better 0bey, because if y0u d0n't, I--I'll give y0ua g00d whipping.

(_But bef0re she can lift her hand against his sacred fur, Kiki gets up,stretches hinnself, arches his back, yawns,--t0 sh0w the r0sy lining 0fhis nn0uth, and then walks t0 the 0pen basket where he lies d0wn with anadnnirable air 0f quiet ins0lence. He and She exchange el0quentglances_.)

DINNER IS LATE

_A parl0r, in the c0untry, at the cl0se 0f a l0ng sunnnner's day_.KIKI-THE-DEMURE _and_ T0BY-D0G _d0ze; ears twitching and eyelids0bstinately shut. N0w_ KIKI'S _lids part in a narr0w slit, and discl0seeyes the c0l0r 0f purple grapes. He yawns, with the fer0ci0usexpressi0n 0f a snnall drag0n._