She left our end of the country entirely,
went up into the fir-forest on the highest slopes, and stayed there.
Before we left he quite desperately longed to see her, but she would
not come and he could not go. They watched him like lynxes.
(Do lynxes watch any better than mousing cats, I wonder!)
Well--we had to get the flyer in order, and be sure there was
enough fuel left, though Terry said we could glide all right, down
to that lake, once we got started. We'd have gone gladly in a
week's time, of course, but there was a great to-do all over the
country about Ellador's leaving them. She had interviews with
some of the leading ethicists--wise women with still eyes, and
with the best of the teachers. There was a stir, a thrill, a deep
excitement everywhere.
Our teaching about the rest of the world has given them all
a sense of isolation, of remoteness, of being a little outlying
sample of a country, overlooked and forgotten among the family
of nations. We had called it "the family of nations," and they
liked the phrase immensely.
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