"No. Why should we?"
"To find out how far the radiation level outside has dropped."
"For what? Who cares about that?"
He frowned bitterly. "The same answer," he muttered, more to himself than to me. "The same answer every time. You people have crawled into your caves and you're ready to stay in them forever."
I looked around at my apartment. "Rather a well-appointed cave," I told him.
"But a cave nevertheless." He leaned toward me, his eyes gleaming with a fanatical flame. "Don't you ever wish to get Outside?"
Incredible! I nearly poured boiling water all over myself. "Outside? Of course not!"