Have ye parted ?' 'Yes--and no,' the lama replied.

'We--we have not altogether parted, but the time is not ripe that we should take the Road together.

He acquires wisdom in another place.

We must wait.' 'All one--but if it were not the boy how did he come to speak so continually of thee ?' 'And what said he ?' asked the lama eagerly.
'Sweet words--an hundred thousand--that thou art his father and mother and such all.

Pity that he does not take the Qpeen's service.