"But if one could not go alone, how could one go at all?"
"He said there was always another chosen to go with us."
"And where is the other?"
"He said, 'In the world somewhere.'"
"And must one seek him?"
"He said that one was always seeking him, from the day that one was born, only one knew it not."
"And what is there to lead us, did he say that?"
"The woman asked him that," replied the Marchesa, "and he said: 'What is there to lead the little people of the sea when they travel with the tides?'"
Caroline stooped over and put her arm close around the Marchesa Soderrelli.
"No matter," she said, "I would stay with the poor dumb woman."