ANNA But, mother, if I don't get all my money, what security have I that what's left will be good in six months or a year?
MRS. CRILLY
I'll watch the money for you, Anna.
ANNA It's hard to keep a hold on money in a town where business is going down.
MRS. CRILLY Forty pounds will be given to you and forty pounds will be kept safe for you.
ANNA Forty pounds! There's not a small farmer comes into the shop but his daughter has more of a dowry than forty pounds.
MRS. CRILLY
Think of all who marry without a dowry at all.
ANNA
You wouldn't have me go to James Scollard without a dowry?
MRS. CRILLY Well, you know the way we're situated. If you insist on getting eighty pounds we'll have to make an overdraft on the bank, and, in the way business is, I don't know how we'll ever recover it.
ANNA There won't be much left out of eighty pounds when we get what suits us in furniture.
MRS. CRILLY
I could let you have some furniture.