“What is it?”
“I don’t know that I can make you see it, Walter, but it’s too much to take when I know it will be a long time before I can pay back the money.”
“But you don’t have to pay it back! You don’t even have to think of that! My father will pay every cent of the term-bills!”
“Walter, did you ever think of what it means for a fellow to be poor and have to take what some one else gives him?”
“I don’t know that I have,” replied Walter more seriously. “Though when it comes to that,” he added lightly, “I haven’t very many shekels myself, except my allowance.”
“That’s different.”
“I suppose it is—after a fashion. I never thought very much about it anyway.”
“If I should offer to give you my yearling colt would you take her?”
“No.”