"That's very different. Besides, the relationship is so very recent that I find it hard to think of your mother as any relation at all."
"She is, though. I suppose me and you will be a good deal together now."
"I don't know what my future plans will be," said Jasper, not very much elated by this prospect.
"No, I suppose not. Mother'll arrange about them. How much allowance did your father use to give you?"
Jasper thought at first of refusing to reply, but it occurred to him that under the new and strange circumstances it was not an improper question for Nicholas to ask. He therefore decided to reply.
"Five dollars a week," he answered.
"When was it paid?"
"On Saturday."
"See here," said Thorne, drawing from his vest pocket the five-dollar bill his mother had given him.
"What of it?" said Jasper.