“I know much more than that. I know why it failed. I have every reason to know, because I myself prevented the attempt.”
“You?” she cried in amazement.
“Yes, I. No one else.”
“And you knew this terrible thing and did not warn me? And yet you knew I was implicated! Oh, how could you?”
This was a point of view which had not occurred to me. She had good reason to blame me; and for the moment I was silent.
“You have no answer? If you had told me, do you think I would not have given a warning of it even at the risk of my life?” and with a despondent sigh she dropped into a chair and sat staring helplessly at the floor.
“You are forgetting that I myself prevented it.”
“Yes, but my life is now in danger. You do not understand what it is you have done. You did what you deemed best, of course; but you do not understand. They are hunting the city for us all now.”
“These people have merely told you that to frighten you. No one has been even to your house.”
“Oh, how little you understand. They are waiting because it is known that I have left there. The instant I leave here I shall be arrested.”