"What do you think?"
"Of course you wouldn't, knowing that the lives of a hundred people were in the balance. Would I try to wreck my own ship to get you discredited?"
"Hardly, since you'd lose too much."
"Might the Guardians try?"
"No."
"But there are your three possibilities, Steve. One of them is it!"
"So—"
"So it must be your little friends, who knew they could set a fire, then put it out without harm to anybody but the man they want to be rid of."
"That's not my fault," snapped Steve.
"No," smiled Wrightwood, "it's all mine. Remember—I told you that no matter what you did it would ultimately work toward my success? Why don't you try aiding me instead of bucking me?"