" Too much bother,’ said Zilla languidly. ‘I let it once to some friends of the Carews who wanted it for the shooting; the dogs slept on the beds and chairs and the sofa in the sitting-room—shooting dogs, Kit! The whole place smelt of animals. You haven’t got animals, have you?’ ‘No,’ I said, laughing. ‘Only three children; they’re quite enough for one woman to look after. "

― D.E. Stevenson , Katherine Wentworth (Katherine, #1)