"You see," Buddy explained, "I began to get busy on the hospital wire just as soon as I realized I was cured, and my old boss is a white man, if ever there was one."
"Not going to Russia just at present?" his father asked.
"Not going to Russia," Buddy said, steadily.
After breakfast Elizabeth had her first minute alone with her brother. They were in the living room, in Grandmother's and Grandfather's chairs respectively, with the big fern branching between them.
"Well, Sister?" Buddy said.
"What do you know about Ruth, now?"
"About Ruth?"
"Yes, Sister, darling, you heard me the first time."
"You mean how—how is she?"