The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near. . . She was offering her open palm to the crook-eared cat, but he stayed where he was, shivering with the desire to go to her". . . [later, Molly asked the cat] "Why were you afraid to let her touch you? I saw you. You were afraid of her. " "If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. . . The price is more than a cat can pay.
The example could encourage others who only fear to start.