He was hunted by the police, he was hunted by his former pals.

And he was in his predicament fundamentally because of her.

Therefore, it was her foremost duty to clear Larry Brainard.
Yes, she would do that first! Somehow!...
She was considering this problem of how she was to clear Larry, who had tried to awaken her, who had shielded her, who loved her, when Dick slowed his car down in front of the Grantham and helped her out.

As he said a subdued good-bye and was stepping back into his car, an impulse surged up into her--an impulse of this different Maggie whose birth was being attended by such bewildering emotions and decisions.
"Dick, won't you please come up for just a little while ?" Three minutes later they were in her sitting-room.

Cap in hand Dick awaited her words in the misery of silence.