Always, he recalled, the arrival and the loading of the truck and the striking of tents had meant that the stay was over and that at the party was going home.
Home! The charm and novelty of the wilderness all at once faded.

Lad was desperately lonely and desperately unhappy.

And his feelings were cruelly hurt; at the strange treatment accorded him.
Yet, it did not occur to him to seek freedom and to follow his gods to the home he loved.

He had been tied here, presumably by their order; certainly with their knowledge.

And it behooved him to wait until they should come to release him.