"You're not paying me back. Don't worry about the money, that's my job." Mick had to finish whatever courses he was taking and Leonard didn't want to mess with that. Besides, he wanted him to have the time with Teddy, even if wording it quite that way was dangerous. He didn't want Mick to feel like a wife in the Fifties.

This just meant that Lisa would have to live at home for a while longer, unless he could think of another solution.