Nat nodded.  "Thank you, Sir.  May I go ahead?  I still... I mean didn't get done... " She blushed in the darkness, really needing still to go.  "I will hurry.  I don't want the dogs after me."  She was interested in knowing more about the dogs.  She liked animals, she had befriended some of the strays in various places she had lived.  But at the moment there were more urgent issues on the hand, and even dogs maybe attacking her were not as urgent.