Sentence:  Now she was strong enough to walk and watch them circling in the sky or to sit in the arbour at the end of the long lawn and, with the sunlight smouldering in her dark-red hair and lying wanly over the area of her face and neck, watch the multiform and snow-white convolutions of her <WSD>malkins</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A cat. (from 17th c.)