"I don't ask you to give me the money. To-morrow evening I shall get my allowance from pa, and then I can pay you back."
"You must excuse me, Loammi, but I have so little money that I have to be very careful of that little. If I had some one to buy my clothes for me, as you have, it would be different."
"Oh, well," said Loammi, offended, "do as you like. You seem to forget that but for pa you would be in the poorhouse."
"I don't think I should."
"Of course you would. Doesn't he give you your living?"
"No. I earn it."
"All the same. He gave you a place in his store."
"I think I could have got work somewhere else. However, I don't deny that your father gave me employment."
"And you repay him by refusing a slight favor to his son."