Or at least their close network of friends.

或者至少告诉他们的亲朋好友。

He was now beginning to find out what that cleverness was — what was the shape into which it had run as into a close network aloof and independent.

他现在开始发现那种聪明是什么——它运行成什么样的形状，就像进入一个冷漠而独立的紧密网络。