Twice a day, between meals, the lady's body is examined for teethmarks. Procuring the next offering takes time, and we have weaned her off opportunistic feeding for the most part, as it was proving unsustainable; thus starved, the distemper tends invariably to turn upon itself. Muzzling has been proposed, but, as yet, never tried; perhaps because to see her wander the halls or skulk the dark ends of the garden with a hound's basket strapped to her face would flense away all pretense as to who holds the reins of this house, and then one might commence to wonder how long we have been in power here and not her, and then—