"There it is--more than five thousand dollars owing.

Surely that's something." He ceased suddenly.

Heyst, who had been all the time trying to look as unconcerned as he could, made reassuring noises in his throat.
But Morrison was not only honest.

He was honourable, too; and on this stressful day, before this amazing emissary of Providence and in the revulsion of his feelings, he made his great renunciation.

He cast off the abiding illusion of his existence.
"No.