Linnia walked with her to the outer door.
“My father said he’d like to have met you,” Linnia said, “but he is too busy preparing for our blast off again. We must hurry because we are behind schedule. Before you leave, Beth, Father has said that you must promise never to speak a word about all this to anyone. I have searched your mind and I know you to be honest.”
Beth was disappointed that she could not make known her fabulous journey, but she promised that she would never tell.
Linnia waved her hand at the door and the electric eye opened it.
“Goodbye, Beth,” Linnia said.
“Goodbye, Linnia.”
Beth heard the sighing of the door as it closed behind her.
Suddenly her head began aching and she remembered the fall she had taken earlier. As she made her way out of the thicket, she began to have a queer feeling about her adventure. It made her wonder if perhaps she might not have been unconscious and imagined the whole thing.
When she reached the car, her father said with some concern, “You were gone so long I started to come for you, Beth. What happened to your forehead?”
She told him about her fall but did not mention the space ship.