"It isn't.

It's not the right way to look at anything.
Yes, and your father knows it as well as I do, when he's in his right mind; and I expect that's one of the reasons he got so mad at me--but anyhow, I couldn't help thinking about how much all this thing HAD maybe meant to him;--as I say, it kind of stuck in my craw.

I want you to tell him something from me, and I want you to go and tell him right off, if he's able and willing to listen.

You tell him I got kind of a notion he was pushed into this thing by circumstances, and tell him I've lived long enough to know that circumstances can beat the best of us--you tell him I said 'the BEST of us.' Tell him I haven't got a bit of feeling against him--not any more--and tell him I came here to ask him not to have any against me." "Yes, Mr.Lamb." "Tell him I said----" The old man paused abruptly and Alice was surprised, in a dull and tired way, when she saw that his lips had begun to twitch and his eyelids to blink; but he recovered himself almost at once, and continued: "I want him to remember, 'Forgive us our transgressions, as we forgive those that transgress against us'; and if he and I been transgressing against each other, why, tell him I think it's time we QUIT such foolishness!" He coughed again, smiled heartily upon her, and walked toward the door; then turned back to her with an exclamation: "Well, if I ain't an old fool!" "What is it ?" she asked.
"Why, I forgot what we were just talking about! Your father wants to settle for Walter's deficit.

Tell him we'll be glad to accept it; but of course we don't expect him to clean the matter up until he's able to talk business again." Alice stared at him blankly enough for him to perceive that further explanations were necessary.