"Quite useless, I should think."
"If they want to be found they'll come home, and if they don't, they know the woods far better than we, and they'll hide."
"They always come back at meal-times—at least, Tommy does."
"I think meal-times are among the happiest hours of an average childhood."
"Before the higher faculties have gained their powers of appreciation—it depends on the child."
"Madge is not an imaginative child."
"Nor Tommy, I think, and yet I don't know. It is hard to appraise the impressions that children receive and cannot record."
"And the experiment—how does it progress?"
"Alas, it is an experiment no longer; it is a very real responsibility, and I am inadequate. Individually, I fancy we are all inadequate, and, collectively, we do not seem quite to have found the way."
Miss Gerald nodded emphatically.