Well, almost…
Cool as a cucumber, (at least not one out in the garden on a hot summer day…) Mark gets all scienc-ey and “tests a theory” that if you don’t threaten a tiger, it won’t charge you… Apparently this worked, at least as far as him turning around on the porch and getting back through the front door… Is this the return of Richard Parker from Life of Pi fame?? It was a book, too… which I recommend over the movie… But no doubt this is a remnant from the circus train… the only problem being that if this is a circus of any renown, this isn’t the only large cat roaming the Preserve…
And what will Mark have Cherry-Honey do? She’s got a “bad feeling” that something isn’t quite right, judging by the look on her face…
“A favor, Mark? What is it?”
“Well, could you step out on the porch for a minute and tell me what you see?” Not that Mark would deliberately lock the door behind Cherry, of course. But all of those Women of Adventure he keeps running into have to have an impact.