"I'm not coming."
He stopped.
"Ruby!" he said again, but with a different voice.
"I'm not coming!"
His hands grew cold on hers. He let her hands go. They dropped to her sides.
"So you didn't believe what Isaacson told you?" she said.
Her only thought was, "I'll make him give me my liberty! I'll make him give me my liberty, so that Baroudi must keep me!"
"What?" he said.
"You didn't believe what Isaacson told you?" she repeated.
"Believe it! I turned him out!"