"'When a man buys this brick house he is paying for the labor that went to make it. But who gets the money--the profit? Not the many men who did the work--but the bosses who control them. And if you study this further you will find that these bosses have bosses above them and those bosses have bosses higher up--so that the real people who control all this work, which makes any article worth money, are very few. Is this clear so far?'
'Us understand!'
But did they?"
P. 189-190
Dr. Copeland is going on one of his rants at his Christmas party and is trying to convince his guests that communism is the way to go. But they are not at his intellectual level, and he is afraid that they won't keep with the concept, that they'll forget about it soon afterward. He is right, and when they replied that they understood with incorrect grammar, it really shows the reader that it is obvious that they do not. They may on the surface, but deep down where it is most important they have no idea.
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