She was messing around with boys and drugs. She didn't really mean to steal the money. She always thought she was just borrowing. But she was getting wild. She assumed I was a cop.
People usually do.
It was easier not to explain, so I didn't. Jim said we'd try. I could tell he wasn't going to treat it as an official crime, that needed reports and had consequences. It would serve no purpose. The best he could do was, maybe, find the girl and bring her back with the money, providing that she hadn't already spent it, which was likely.