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The Mouse is a walking apology. Even nowadays they are mostly women, and Mice feel that they have to apologise for having been born and if they had their own way, their gravestones would say ‘Excuse my dust’.

Mice are afraid that they are in the way or that they are causing inconvenience to others. They will wait for half an hour for two shop assistants to finish their chat rather than draw attention to themselves.

The Mouse hovers a lot, in every respect. She hovers to wait on her family, she hovers for her boss to call her in for dictation, she hovers when she is asked for her opinion because she feels unable to come down on one or the other side of the fence. Even if a Mouse tried to sit on the fence, she would probably fall off it, so sure is she that she is useless (and as we know by now, if you think you are useless you will eventually become useless).

Mice are not necessarily popular because their readiness to oblige is often considered stupidity, and their constant apologies make people fed up with them rather than like them. The word ‘no’ might just as well not exist for Mice because they would not dream of uttering it, ever.