“Our worries are over for the present, Jap.” She walked to the bureau and took out the money. “There is five hundred dollars.”

He stared at it, at her, and back again incredulously.

“Is this a joke?” finally.

She shook her head.

“Kate Prentice.”

He shouted at her.

“What? You borrowed from her?”

“She promised it to me before the—the—”

“You can’t keep it.”

“But, Jap—”