Dowsett
Just so.
Sakari
Then if the people are thrifty, and buy less, times will be harder?
Dowsett
(Perplexed.) Er—it would seem so.
Sakari
Then it would seem that the present bad times are due to the fact that the people are thrifty, rather than not thrifty?
(Dowsett is nonplussed, and Mrs. Dowsett throws up her hands in despair.)
Mrs. Dowsett