What did Alice do after finding out about Randy's cable?

A little later Randy receives a telegram from his brother, Mark Bragg, telling Randy to meet him at the nearest Air Force base, McCoy, at noon that day, and that his wife and children, Helen Bragg, Peyton, and Ben Franklin, would be flying into McCoy that night. At the very end, it is signed "Alas, Babylon." This is a code that he and Mark had agreed to use a while back if Mark, an Air Force man living at headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, ever got wind of a nuclear attack coming from the Soviets. Randy knows then that something is gravely wrong, and he prepares to head to McCoy to meet Mark and get the full story. The story cuts back to Florence for a moment, who is with her best friend Alice, hearing about her recent squabble with Kitty Offenhaus, the town undertaker's wife. The conversation then turns to Randy, and Florence urges Alice to come and stay at her house for a while to see how he watches he