Besides, if you borrowed this from your father, you could pay back your mother and me.

You would pay the whole thing right off." Once more Hughie argued with himself.

To be free from Foxy's hateful tyranny, and to be clear again with his mother--for that he would be willing to suffer almost anything.

But to take money out of that drawer was awfully like stealing.

Of course he would pay it back, and after all it would only be borrowing.