"When did you say they come?"
"Next Monday, first Monday in August. What's the difference? The sooner the better," Thornton said.
"Was it just an even hundred that you took, when you forgot about what you were doing, sort of?" Tom asked.
"A hundred and three."
"Then will twenty-three dollars be enough to get back to that place where you live?"
"Why?"
"I'm just asking you."
"It's twenty-one forty."
"That means you'll have a dollar sixty for meals," Tom said, "unless you have some of your own. Have you?"
Thornton seemed rather puzzled, but he jingled some coin in his pocket and pulled out a five dollar bill and some change.