You know so much, you see, and we know only our own land." In the course of our previous studies we had been at some pains to tell them about the big world outside, to draw sketches, maps, to make a globe, even, out of a spherical fruit, and show the size and relation of the countries, and to tell of the numbers of their people.

All this had been scant and in outline, but they quite understood.
I find I succeed very poorly in conveying the impression I would like to of these women.

So far from being ignorant, they were deeply wise--that we realized more and more; and for clear reasoning, for real brain scope and power they were A No.

1, but there were a lot of things they did not know.
They had the evenest tempers, the most perfect patience and good nature--one of the things most impressive about them all was the absence of irritability.

So far we had only this group to study, but afterward I found it a common trait.
We had gradually come to feel that we were in the hands of friends, and very capable ones at that--but we couldn't form any opinion yet of the general level of these women.
"We want you to teach us all you can," Somel went on, her firm shapely hands clasped on the table before her, her clear quiet eyes meeting ours frankly.