″‘Perhaps the elephant will turn back into a white hen,’ murmured Delphine. ‘After all, she only did it for the game. When we’ve stopped playing Noah’s Ark there won’t be any reason for her to go on being an elephant.‘”
″‘You must all behave like the cat. Look at that way he’s purring!’
It was quite true. The cat was purring as though nothing were happening, because he knew that the Flood was only a game.”