"Why should we?
They are all gone.

They knew less than we do.

If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them--and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us." This set me thinking in good earnest.

I had always imagined--simply from hearing it said, I suppose--that women were by nature conservative.

Yet these women, quite unassisted by any masculine spirit of enterprise, had ignored their past and built daringly for the future.
Ellador watched me think.