When it suits them, they scratch, even though they have been ever so soft before.

Count Pateroff is a cat.
You, Harry, I think are a dog." She perhaps expected that he would promise to her that he would be her dog--a dog in constancy and affection; but he was still mindful in part of Florence, and restrained himself.
"I must tell you something further," she said.

"And indeed it is this that I particularly want to tell you.

I have not seen him, you know, since I parted with him at Florence." "I did not know," said Harry.
"I thought I had told you.

However, so it is.