"But the berry season is short and soon over, my son: and there are seasons when there are no berries at all-except preserved ones," suggested my mother, with that swift, curious cattiness which so often astounds me in even the dearest of women.
"Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man"
Marie Conway Oemler
Mrs. Hilyard had laughed that low, pretty laugh of hers which was always free from the least suspicion of "cattiness."
"The Vision of Desire"
Margaret Pedler