with many tears she told him that he had guessed rightly when he supposed her not to belong to this world that she had in truth come from the moon, and that her time on earth would soon be over. on the fifteenth day of that very month of august her friends from the moon would come to fetch her, and she would have to return. her parents were both there, but having spent a lifetime on the earth she had forgotten them, and also the moon-world to which she belonged. it made her weep, she said, to think of leaving her kind foster-parents, and the home where she had been happy for so long.