However, the debts have been paid, and we can't unpay them.

But of course you can repay me the money if you like.

It amounts in all to four thousand three hundred and seventeen pounds, twelve shillings and sixpence, and I have paid every penny of it out of my own pocket.

If you can't pay it yourself, perhaps your father would like to do so.' The last shot told; he went on writing: '"Kindly paid for me,"' she continued in the same even voice: '"In remembrance of my mother, of whom she was an acquaintance." Now sign it!' He did so and handed it to her.

She read it over carefully, folded it, and put it in her pocket.