"We can't-" "We have to." "She didn't-" "He said-" Finally, Ruth put her foot down. "She wove dissent among us when she was here; I won't let her do it without even being present. You saw yourselves that she grew too weak to return often, and now she's stopped returning at all. It's plain that the plague or something else got to her. Until the radio reception comes back, we stay."
In other words, they weren't all comfortable with it - Ruth had Lacey pegged as a troublemaker almost as soon as her husband brought her home, but the others feel it is, at the very least, cruel to leave her to her fate outside.
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"We have to."
"She didn't-"
"He said-"
Finally, Ruth put her foot down. "She wove dissent among us when she was here; I won't let her do it without even being present. You saw yourselves that she grew too weak to return often, and now she's stopped returning at all. It's plain that the plague or something else got to her. Until the radio reception comes back, we stay."
In other words, they weren't all comfortable with it - Ruth had Lacey pegged as a troublemaker almost as soon as her husband brought her home, but the others feel it is, at the very least, cruel to leave her to her fate outside.