cat's-pawed

Updated: June 22, 2025

"They say so." "Do you think he will ever come back?" "No. He will never come back." "Ah." She would stand looking past Marion with her face cat's-pawed by memory and her fingers teasing the fringe of her shawl, till from the garden the blind old man would cry lovingly and querulously, "Trixy, where are you?" and she would answer, "Coming, dearie."

Rebecca West - The Judge