What then of her human guise? What is the point of it? Is it merely a 
deceitful mask? She finds that hard to accept. Tikki has come to believe that 
Nature would not have equipped her to pass for human if Nature did not intend 
her to play some significant role in the human domain. Her problem is that 
defining the role, her proper role among humans, has proven as difficult for her 
as it was for her mother.