“Discount,” said I, “what’s that? We haven’t got to it yet in Syntax.”
“Don’t be a young ass. Did none of them give you any change?”
“Rather, all of them. I brought it back, or used it to pay the rest.”
“What I mean is, you didn’t make anything out of it for yourself, did you?”
“Me—oh!” the conscious blushes suddenly mounted as I grasped his meaning.
“Yes, you.”
“Well, only, you see, it was—”
“Come, no lies. I know all about it. Did you or did you not?”
“Not from the hat man,” said I.
“From all the others?”