He knew they could not hurt him.
"Well, well, well!" roared Sharon Whipple, meaning again to be humorous.
But the restored Wilbur eyed him coldly, with just a faint curiosity that withered the humorist in him.

"Well, well!" he repeated, but in dry, businesslike tones, as if he had not meant to be funny in the first place.
"I guess we'll have to be going now," said the Wilbur twin.

"And we must leave all that money.

It wouldn't be honest to take it now." The Merle twin at this looked across at him with marked disfavour.
"Nonsense!" said Miss Juliana.
"Nonsense!" said Sharon Whipple.
"Take it, of course!" said Gideon Whipple.
"He's earned it fairly," said Juliana.

She turned to Merle.