“Parents are apt to have limited ideas on such subjects. That was the case with my father.”
“What did you do?”
“Do? I borrowed from him.”
“How could you do that? Was he willing?”
“He didn’t know it.”
“Didn’t know that you borrowed money of him?”
“No. You are an only child, are you not?”
“Yes.”
“So am I. You will be sole heir to your father’s property, won’t you?”
“Of course,” answered Philip, with an air of consequence.