"Why not?"
"Because, if you do, we'll have a mean breakfast as usual. I just want him to think you're rich a little while longer, so we can have something decent for once."
"I don't feel willing to deceive your father any longer. I have not willingly deceived him at all."
"You're a fool then!"
"Look here," said Walter, flushing a little, "I don't allow anybody to call me by that name."
"No offence," said Joshua, whose physical courage was not very great. "I didn't mean anything, of course, except that it was foolish to blurt it all out to-night, when there isn't any need of it. There isn't such an awful hurry, is there?"
"I would rather your father knew at once."
"To-morrow will be soon enough."
"At any rate I shall tell him to-morrow, then. But I've got tired walking. Suppose we go back."