It was Mrs Dalloway’s friend, Septimus Smith, who said that.

“It was horrible, terrible to see a dog become a man.”

(Woolf, p. 61)

Septimus Smith isn’t well. What he says does not literally mean what words he used.

I have this book edition of Mrs Dalloway:

Amazon sells this:

Related post:

This is the main book review post https://booksreviewsandmore.com/why-does-peter-walsh-have-an-axe-to-grind-with-clarissa-dalloway/