"Dr. Johns?" She was staring at him, startled. And then suddenly on her face and in her eyes there was the light of memory. "Dr. Johns? Why—why—"
"Yes?" he prompted. "Try and think!"
"Dr. Johns? Why—Gloria—yes, yes there was a Gloria! Why—that is my other name! His daughter—Gloria Johns—why, of course!"
Gloria Johns.... "Then your father and mine—they were friends," Atwood murmured.
The familiar scenes of Earth would bring everything back to her. And Ah-li, Goddess of the planet, would be gone. There would just be Gloria Johns.
They sat gazing at the immensity of Space—at the tiny dot of light which was their great world waiting for them.