Sadie has taken so well to Greta's other friends that it's still hard to believe she'd have an instinctive dislike of Biffy. But he'd know better than her what the average dog is willing to tolerate as far as werewolves are concerned, and she doesn't want to put Sadie through a stressful situation -- or Biffy through an awkward one -- on the off chance her dog might be different.

And even if Sadie was all right with Biffy, goodness knows what she'd make of Pawvus.

"How are things at the farmhouse?" she asks, partly for the sake of not talking about the shambles her situation has become, and partly out of genuine curiosity. She hasn't kept up with Biffy as much as she could have. "I know you've had some changes, lately." But they've been good ones, or so she understands.