Kate Gilbert leaned a bit closer to Prale, and when she spoke it was in a low, tense voice.
"Go away from New York, Mr. Prale!"
"Why should I do that?" he asked.
"It would be better for you, I feel sure."
"Because of the absurd charge against me? I intend to have my innocence proved, and I'd hate to run away and let people think that perhaps I was guilty after all."
"You have the right to prove your innocence of such a charge to all the world," she said. "But, after you have done it conclusively, you should go away."
"Why?" he asked, again.
"Because—you have enemies, Mr. Prale!"
"I have discovered that; but I do not know why I should have enemies."
"Perhaps you did something, some time, to create them."