1 They will see, understand and forgive.
2 Now, we cannot speak, for we cannot understand.
3 For we did not understand what had made us do this, and we were afraid to understand it.
4 We cannot understand this new life which we have found, yet it seems so clear and so simple.
5 We think that in the wisdom of women the Golden One had understood more than we can understand.
6 We shall need the days and the years ahead, to look, to learn, and to understand the things of this house.
7 We tried not to understand what the Teachers taught, but we always understood it before the Teachers had spoken.
8 For should any men save the Scholars learn of our secret, they would not understand it, nor would they believe us.
9 We found no other beds in the house, and then we knew that only two had lived here, and this passes understanding.
10 We glanced through the pages, and we saw that they were written in our language, but we found many words which we could not understand.
11 We do not understand them, but we think that the men of the Unmentionable Times had known our power of the sky, and these things had some relation to it.