I agree on Kitty as I have said BUT I don't think Oppie was telling her anything I think his disillusionment with communism was sincere... every picture of him after the 30's he looks like a unhappy man.
You have never been married have you? Oppie was a commie, his brother was a commie, Kitty was a commie, his friends were commies. Steve Nelson, a Yugoslav by the way, used to stop by, commie spy.
The FBI wire tapped these people.