Zo answered this time--as she had formerly answered Teresa in the Gardens.

"I don't know." He turned again to Carmina, in a slow, puzzled way.

"I don't know either," he said.
Hearing the big man own that he was no wiser than herself, Zo returned to him--without, however, getting on his knee again.

She clasped her chubby hands under the inspiration of a new idea.

"Let's play at something," she said to Benjulia.