Thomas

Thomas is one of the most engaging cats in fiction. He isn’t afraid of his owner, Miss Stitch the dressmaker, but he is a practical cat and believes in keeping himself in her good graces.

Thomas talks only to people whose faces he likes. He doesn’t talk to Miss Stitch, but he does to Frances, a little girls who comes to have a dress made. Thomas disapproves when Lynette, the dressmakers bird, begs Frances to let her out of her cage. Frances is too much in awe of Thomas to disobey him (besides, she doesn’t want to do anything naughty, for a while yet anyway). Lynette tricks Frances into opening her cage and Miss Stitch is furious , but Thomas saves the day, and gets himself a new home into the bargain.