Please listen. If you were at all a man of the world, I should not have to explain [pg 067] that in marrying into a noble house I bring my dot, my dowry—
PIKE
[puzzled]
Money, you mean?
ETHEL
If you choose to put it that way.
PIKE
You mean you want to put aside something of your own to buy a lot and fix up a place to start housekeeping—
ETHEL
No, no! I mean a settlement upon Mr. St. Aubyn directly.