She said I would have the necessary material in a month or six weeks, and that editing would “take another month,” from which it is evident that no eight-hour law is operative on her plane. She also advised me to see publishers at once, tell them what was happening, read them parts of communications already received, and arrange for Fall publication, conditional upon their satisfaction with the completed manuscript—which, not without misgivings concerning such procedure, I immediately prepared to act upon.
A night or so later, Maynard Holt came again, with his mother, who said: “Maynard brought me to call.”
When we asked if she worked with those on this plane, she replied: “Yes, but also with undeveloped purposes, here before their time.”
Returning to the subject of Russian upheaval, Maynard said: “They are goners for some time, now. It will take them long to assemble their purposes again constructively.”
“If you had been here,” Cass asked, “would you have viewed the Russian situation and its effect on the world as you do now?”
“Not quite, I think. We see farther ahead, and have sounder premises from which to argue than you’ve ever had there.”
“This plan, of course, includes all the people of the world,” Cass continued. “Are those who leave here undeveloped, still undeveloped there?”
“There is a large and growing population here of the undeveloped,” was Maynard’s reply, “which is one of the lesser reasons for our keen desire to purposize the world.”