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AWESOME ADVENTURES
a while. "You are perhaps
the most stupid door it has
ever been my misfortune
to pass through -- or
attempt to pass through."
"Fair master, reason for
my being, I deduced that
you could not mean 'Be
quiet' as I had not said
anything.
I
deduced
wrongly,
it
seems,"
concluded the
door on a sad
note.
"Do
you
think I'm in
the habit of
trying
to
enter
doors
which
I've
just told to
shut.”
He
stood
there, hands
on
hips,
staring at the
door
defiantly.
"Humans have funny
tastes, master mine, if you
will excuse me being
personal for a moment. I
have heard that some
people actually still keep
the knobs on their doors
so that they can use them
for - '
"DOOR!”
screamed
Perlock. "That's why I
told you to shut up before
you said anything. You're
a loud-mouthed door."
"I beg to
differ,
Sir,
but I have no
mouth at all."
Perlock
clenched his
teeth
until
his
jaws
ached.
He
thumped his
left fist into
his
right
palm, winced
a little and
said,
as
calmly as he
was
able,
"For the sake
of my sanity
open up and
shut up or I'll have you
replaced by a hole in the
wall." The door slid open,
mumbling “Sorry, kind
and good master."