It's a fairly well established fact that children simply can't speak of certain terrors.

And the more frightened they are the more powerful is the inhibition.

In any case it was useless to question Sami so we fed him instead and presently he went to sleep.
I suppose we all forgot him.

I know I did.

One doesn't elope every day.
And it was never Sami's way to insist upon his presence as ordinary children do.