To ensure her absolute safety.
She was a woman of action.
She immediately returned to her small workshop and started packing things up, not finishing until that evening.
Just as she was getting ready to go home, Ian Quincy showed up at her door. "I knew you'd be here. Didn't you say you were pausing the hair pomade business?"
"I am. I'm packing up my tools," Cecilia Adler said, then told him what had happened to Felix Flynn.
Ian Quincy teased, "I thought you weren't afraid of anything."
"How could I not be?" Cecilia said. "If I didn't have a child, I wouldn't care at all. But things are different now. I can't have my baby be born only for people to say, 'That kid's mom was in a labor camp.' How humiliating would that be? Claire would face discrimination at school, too."
She had so many people to worry about now; she had to be cautious.
