Spot shifts position, ostensibly to get more comfortable but using it as an excuse to glance around and make sure nobody was too close before he answers.

"Seems that way," he agreed "He didn't mention it at all when I got home."

He'd gotten in trouble later that week for some other infraction, but there'd been no mention of him running around dressed as a newsie, and no indication of a closer eye on him or anything else he might have expected in way of consequences from his father.