It really was child's play for those profound educators
to work out a painfully accurate estimate of our conditions
--in some lines. When a given line of observation seemed to lead
to some very dreadful inference they always gave us the benefit
of the doubt, leaving it open to further knowledge. Some of the
things we had grown to accept as perfectly natural, or as belonging
to our human limitations, they literally could not have believed;
and, as I have said, we had all of us joined in a tacit endeavor
to conceal much of the social status at home.
"Confound their grandmotherly minds!" Terry said. "Of
course they can't understand a Man's World! They aren't human
--they're just a pack of Fe-Fe-Females!" This was after he had
to admit their parthenogenesis.
"I wish our grandfatherly minds had managed as well," said Jeff.
"Do you really think it's to our credit that we have muddled along
with all our poverty and disease and the like? They have peace and
plenty, wealth and beauty, goodness and intellect.
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