`` Well , maybe I might have , Mrs. Dr. dear , and I intended to , but one remark he made aggravated me beyond my powers of endurance . If it had not been for that I would not have chased him with my dye-pot . I will tell you the whole interview . Whiskers sat down , as I have said , and right beside him on another chair Doc was lying . The animal was pretending to be asleep but I knew very well he was not , for he has been Hyde all day and Hyde never sleeps . By the way , Mrs. Dr. dear , have you noticed that that cat is far oftener Hyde than Jekyll now ? The more victories Germany wins the Hyder he becomes . I leave you to draw your own conclusions from that . I suppose Whiskers thought he might curry favour with me by praising the creature , little dreaming what my real sentiments towards it were , so he stuck out his pudgy hand and stroked Mr. Hyde 's back . ` What a nice cat , ' he said . The nice cat flew at him and bit him . Then it gave a fearful yowl , and bounded out of the door . Whiskers looked after it quite amazed . ` That is a queer kind of a varmint , ' he said . I agreed with him on that point , but I was not going to let him see it . Besides , what business had he to call our cat a varmint ? ` It may be a varmint or it may not , ' I said , ` but it knows the difference between a Canadian and a Hun . ' You would have thought , would you not , Mrs. Dr. dear , that a hint like that would have been enough for him ! But it went no deeper than his skin . I saw him settling back quite comfortable , as if for a good talk , and thought I , ` If there is anything coming it may as well come soon and be done with , for with all these rags to dye before supper I have no time to waste in flirting , ' so I spoke right out .
` XXXXX you have anything particular to discuss with me , Mr. Pryor , I would feel obliged if you would mention it without loss of time , because I am very busy this afternoon . '
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