[She thought everyone would be worried that she was gone. Was afraid her parents might fear the worst. Because... she was here, surely, so she couldn’t be anywhere else, let alone back home? Some people tried to say that surely time stopped while they were gone, so maybe no one would notice she was gone... and she hadn’t understood how that could be either, but she’d hoped it was so... but after Gonta arrived...]
Gonta did! He’s here- Oh, not here I mean, he’s back home, but-
[She has to bring Mikuni back with her, right now? Already she’s starting to tug a bit, trying to draw him this way, no that way, out of the pumpkin patch and deeper into the Groves.]
What does “many times” mean? Gonta said we’d just set off for the mountains and that- that we were married-
[Which she wants to announce to him in excitement except apparently? he already knew that??? SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO HADN'T KNOWN?]
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[She thought everyone would be worried that she was gone. Was afraid her parents might fear the worst. Because... she was here, surely, so she couldn’t be anywhere else, let alone back home? Some people tried to say that surely time stopped while they were gone, so maybe no one would notice she was gone... and she hadn’t understood how that could be either, but she’d hoped it was so... but after Gonta arrived...]
Gonta did! He’s here- Oh, not here I mean, he’s back home, but-
[She has to bring Mikuni back with her, right now? Already she’s starting to tug a bit, trying to draw him this way, no that way, out of the pumpkin patch and deeper into the Groves.]
What does “many times” mean? Gonta said we’d just set off for the mountains and that- that we were married-
[Which she wants to announce to him in excitement except apparently? he already knew that??? SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO HADN'T KNOWN?]
Do you come with us, Mikuni?