"The Man Who Loved Cats."

A lecherous professor seduces an innocent sixteen-year-old girl when she visits his home for tutoring; he has seventeen cats, and states that "cats and women go together. They were made for the same thing — for petting and loving and stroking."

In the New Statesman and Nation (March 13, 1937), Something Short and Sweet (1937), Thirty-One Selected Tales (1947).