The girl, a long-legged beauty with swaying hips, walked towards him with a dog trailing slightly behind and as they came abreast of him he stopped to flirt and give the dog a pat on the head, but as distracted as he was by the woman's beauty, he momentarily turned his attention to the dog and unconsciously let out a scream like a little girl due to the hideousness of the creature's face—the eyes bugging out, the greenish-tongue lolling and the lower jaw facing impossibly to the left while the snout pointed the other way.