I hope you don't mind that he and I have learned to be good friends.

Won't you tell me his name?
I have tried everything, but nothing seems to fit.

To call such a royal fellow, 'doggie', doesn't do at all, does it ?" Conrad Lagrange laughed--and it was the laugh of a Conrad Lagrange unknown to the world.

"No," he said with mock seriousness, "'doggie,' doesn't do at all.

He's not that kind of a dog.