Chapters 50 through 55 Summary

Pug arrives home but rushes right off to check out his orders, leaving Rhoda at home. Sime Anderson, the young man who admires Madeline, is visiting when Pug returns. He worked on another military project but is soon being told about the American Navy scientists' work on a super bomb that uses uranium. Sime has no aspirations at sea and is anxious for the opportunity to work on this project.

Pug is to report the following day to the White House and he and Rhoda spend an uncomfortable evening together. At the end of the day, he is almost drunk, very tired and falls into bed alone. He wakes in the middle of the night, goes downstairs and discovers Rhoda has put together a scrapbook of Warren's life, beginning with baby pictures and ending with his newspaper obituary. After some whiskey...