"This is all very well, Roger; but I don't know that you have any right to ask me these questions. I have money. If I buy a horse I can pay for it. If I keep one or two I can pay for them. Of course I owe a lot of money, but other people owe me money too. I'm all right, and you needn't frighten yourself."
"Then why do you beg her last shilling from your mother, and when you have money not pay it back to her?"
"She can have the twenty pounds, if you mean that."
"I mean that, and a good deal more than that. I suppose you have been gambling."

"This is all very well, Roger; but I don't know that you have any right to ask me these questions. I have money. If I buy a horse I can pay for it. Of course I owe a lot of money, but other people owe me money too. I'm all right."
"Then why do you beg her last shilling from your mother, and not pay it back to her?"
"She can have the twenty pounds, if you mean that."
"I mean that, and a good deal more. I suppose you have been gambling."
