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which I recognized as Epetra domiciliorum. She was evidently 
in quest of something, as I was led to suspect from her 
seemingly thoughtful and deliberate movements. I watched 
her closely and criticisingly for a long while, and in one of 
her contemplative moods, when she stood perfectly motion- 
less and fixed as it were to the railing, I reached out my 
finger rather impulsively and began stroking her along the 
abdomen, a familiarity which she did not resent, and which 
seemed to give her the most intense delight. When the 
caressing had ceased, she would turn round and confront her 
newly-made acquaintance, but the lifting of the finger was 
always the signal for her to assume an attitude of the most 
perfect quiescence. That she enjoyed these little attentions 
there cannot be a shadow of doubt, or actions are no use in 
the interpretation of feeling. Had they been painful, she 
would have sought relief in flight, or in the manifestation of 
an untoward disposition towards her unintentional persecutor. 
