[Stanley would ask months later how it was possible for the Troops not to know of each other’s existence all these years when obviously they could, at times, talk to each other. The Interpreter would tell him that the Troop members had been speaking but not to each other. “It’s a matter of thought transference, Stanley. We could hear each other’s thoughts sometimes and didn’t know where they were coming from. The woman, when she could hear them, simply believed they were her own.”]
