Being Yours
The tips of its white, terrible teeth showed, but only for a moment before its pale tongue emerged to lick Paul's hand.
He leant closer to it, murmuring soothing nonsense. Presently he put down the torch so that he could lay his other hand on the wicked head. Watching him stroke firmly between the peaked ears and down the shaggy neck to the bunched shoulder-muscles, Amy sensed, rather than saw, that the muscles loosened a little. Certainly the ears stood less to attention.
'That dog ain't no savage,' said the man called Jim. 'E's as Christian as I am.'
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