If anything, she'd been afraid of an accusation that the list was hers and that she was a communist. The thought that someone would think she stole it comes as a shock to her. Her hands fly up, as if for protection.

"I didn't steal it! It was--my friend--" She shakes her head. Wei? Why is she thinking of him right now? "I just found it in the school. I was going to turn it in."