Some time,--within four years,--I mean to buy back the Lazy A.I want to know how much it will take." Until that moment Jean had merely dreamed of some day buying it back.

Until she spoke she would have named the idea a beautiful, impossible desire.
"Where you going to get the money ?" Carl looked at her curiously, as if he almost doubted her sanity.
"Rob a bank, perhaps.

How much will it take to square things with you?
Of course, being a relative, I expect to be cheated a little.

So I am going to adopt sly, sleuth-like methods and find out just how much dad owed you before--it happened, and just how much the lawyers charged, and what was the real market value of the outfit, and all that.

Dad told me--dad told me that there was something left over for me.