Why did she not speak of that?
Do you know--can you tell me ?" "I can guess the reason, Rima.

It is very sad--so sad that it is hard to tell it.

When Nuflo tended her in the cave and was ready to worship her and do everything she wished, and conversed with her by signs, she showed no wish to return to her people.

And when he offered her, in a way she understood, to take her to a distant place, where she would be among strange beings, among others like Nuflo, she readily consented, and painfully performed that long journey to Voa.

Would you, Rima, have acted thus--would you have gone so far away from your beloved people, never to return, never to hear of them or speak to them again?
Oh no, you could not; nor would she if her people had been in existence.