At dinner in Irving, LHO and Michael talked in English while Ruth spoke with Marina in Russian. After dinner, Marina and Ruth did the dishes and talked in Russian while Michael and LHO sat in the living room to converse. Ruth didn't hear their conversation. She knew that Michael was initially interested in what sort of American would move to the USSR; perhaps a thinker and an individualist. After Michael drove LHO and Marina home, he returned to tell Ruth that LHO was not a deep thinker as he'd hoped. LHO merely shared the dogmatic belief that capitalists wrongly exploited workers. Boring.