“I hoped you hadn’t.”
“What difference does it make?”
“You heard me with the money, and yet you couldn’t come in and ask me to lend it to you.”
“I should like to have seen you do it!”
“The money was for something special, Jan.”
“I thought it was.”
“Half the house had just been giving me their allowances, but some had got more from home expressly.”
“Yet you pretend you’d have let me touch it!”
Chips bore this taunt without heat, yet with a treacherous lip.
“I would, Jan, every penny of it.”