"Like your aunt? But she ain't exactly a pet lamb, Peregrine, nor yet
a cooin' dove--now, is she? And as for me I'm just--"

"My goddess Diana!"

"Was the real goddess a lady?"

"Well, I--I suppose so--but I want to ask you--"

"No, tell me about her--the goddess Diana."

"Well, besides Diana, she was called Cynthia, Delia, Ancia, Orthia and
several other names--"

"And all of 'em pretty, too!"

"And she was passionately fond of hunting."

"And didn't like men overmuch, did she?"

"Well, it appears not. She changed Actaeon into a stag and had him
devoured by her dogs--"

"Which wasn't very ladylike, Peregrine--that was coming it a bit too
strong, I think! Why did she do it? Poor young man!"

"Because he spied upon her--at her toilet."

"Was that all? d'ye mean he catches her undoin' her curl papers?"