You shall meet her." "No surnames at all then ?" pursued Terry, with his somewhat patronizing air.

"No family name ?" "Why no," she said.

"Why should we?
We are all descended from a common source--all one 'family' in reality.

You see, our comparatively brief and limited history gives us that advantage at least." "But does not each mother want her own child to bear her name ?" I asked.
"No--why should she?
The child has its own." "Why for--for identification--so people will know whose child she is." "We keep the most careful records," said Somel.

"Each one of us has our exact line of descent all the way back to our dear First Mother.