“ In spite of a slight tendency to exaggeration , Katharine decidedly hitshitthe mark , ” he saidsay, and lyinglieback in his chair , with his opaque contemplative eyes fixed on the ceiling , and the tips of his fingers pressed together , he depicteddepict, first the horrors of the streets of Manchester , and then the bare , immense moors on the outskirts of the town , and then the scrubby little house in which the girl would live , and then the professors and the miserable young students devoted to the more strenuous works of our younger dramatists , who would visit her , and how her appearance would change by degrees , and how she would fly to London , and how Katharine would have to lead her about , as one leads an eager dog on a chain , past rows of clamorous butchers ’ shops , poor dear creature .