Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children, and definitely not for me.It would be too humiliating.The seven mischievous, incorrigible children test her and play a prank upon her, as they have done previously to run off other governesses...tires or saccharin" but something else.[Note: The artistic influences of his Western pulp novels, making him ""the lone rider"" of his own stories, convince Holly, mistakenly, that Harry was a victim of Calloway - a ""sheriff"" authority figure.Peter: Sounds like a lot of supernatural baloney to me.Werdegast: Supernatural, perhaps -baloney, perhaps not! There are many things under the sun.Poelzig: I shall show you your rooms.Peter: It""s strange about the cat.Joan seemed so curiously affected when you killed it.Werdegast: That was coincidence, I think.However, certain ancient books say that the Black Cat is the living embodiment of Evil.And if that Evil enters into the nearest living thing, it is...Poelzig: (interrupting) The Black Cat does not die.Those same books, if I""m not mistaken, teach that the Black Cat is deathless.Deathless as Evil.It is the origin of the common superstition.You know, the cat with nine lives.At his bedroom door, Poelzig bids Vitus (and then Peter) goodnight: "Sleep well." Peter criticizes Poelzig""s architectural aste as he speaks to Werdegast through an adjoining bedroom: "Well, I suppose we""ve got to have architects too.The title of the film is an anomaly and a clue to the absurd, confused plot in which no one is what he/she appears to be - there is no sharply delineated N by NW on a compass - it is an improbable direction.He dissolved or disintegrated into a puddle of water, as he told Storm: "I think you""ve got one less person to - to be afraid of.