Ford caught the subtle undertone of what Cash was saying and frowned. "It's two," he said, a touch defensively. "Same as the first season after we were out of mourning." The implication he was pushing was that he had managed it before — Verity was married, however rocky the path had been to get there — so why shouldn't he be able to manage it now? Of course the reality was that he was not managing it — he was resorting to crime to keep them afloat, and that was not a sustainable long-term solution, so even with the burglaries he couldn't manage it very much longer — but he didn't want to tell Cash that. Ford had fixed Cash's fledgling dementor — he wanted Cash to see him as a person who could handle things.
Set by Lady!