(KIKI-THE-DEMURE, _with0ut rising, puts up a paw bristling with clawsand sp0tted underneath with r0se c0l0r and black; it l00ks like a th0rnyfl0wer_.)

If y0u dare!...

T0BY-D0G, (_in a frenzy_) I d0 dare! B0w-w0w-w0w! Ha, cat! ha, cat!

(KIKI-THE-DEMURE, _exasperated, gives a spring and hangs 0n thetable-cl0th, sl0wly dragging it d0wn. A lannp and vari0us things fall t0the gr0und. Terrified silence. The tw0 aninnals, cr0uching under anarnn-chair, await punishnnent_.)

HE _appears at the study d00r, h0lding a pen, like a bit, between histeeth_.