“I doubt it. It might. You’re just back from London, I hear.”

“Yesterday.”

“Can they stand another blitz—all winter—if they get it?”

“I hope so.”

“I don’t give a damn what you hope. What do you think?”

“I hope so. Y ou ought to know something about people’s ability to take it where they live.”

Heiffler chuckled. “You’re a pretty sound egg, Bailey—considering your brother!”

“He could have been sound.”

“Mmm. Environment—”

“That colored man—have a family?”