Joe warned and forbade Cal from loitering around another building closeby that Kate also owned (the separate, more lucrative brothel?): "You""re too young.By the end of the dance, Esther has been gently pushed into John""s arms.In their nightclothes at the foot of the stairs, John discovers ""Tootie"" and Agnes watching the party hosted by their big sisters: "There are mice in the house, two of them...it""s bait, part of an internal molehunt," and told her he wanted to ask Job why he had been "disavowed" - he then promised to "deliver the actual NOC list," while warning her not to open up the ""worthless"" disk that was equipped with a homing device, that would automatically summon CIA agents within no more than 10 minutes.] In the local iron foundry at the end of the night shift, fiery, bright flames, smoke and sparks emerge from the blast furnaces - the powerful, hellish fire a symbol of productiveness and destructiveness both in peace and in war-time.