Money could not help them, except that it could buy back the Lazy A and restock it, and make of it the home it had been three years ago.
Lite, in the secret heart of him, did not want Jean to set her heart on doing that.

Lite was almost in a position to do it himself, just as he had planned and schemed and saved to do, ever since the day when he took Jean to the Bar Nothing, and announced to her that he intended to take care of her in place of her father.

He had wanted to surprise Jean; and Jean, with her usual headlong energy bent upon the same object, seemed in a fair way to forestall him, unless he moved very quickly.
"Lite, you won't spoil everything now, just when I'm given this great opportunity, will you ?" Jean's voice was steady again.

She could even meet his eyes without flinching.

"Gil says it's a great opportunity, in every way.