"That's my business."
"What do you propose to do with it?"
"Nothing. If you marry me I'll give it you before we leave the registrar's."
"And if I don't?"
"You'll be in gaol."
"I see; that's it. If I don't write I'm in the cart, and if I do write and don't marry I'm also in the cart."
"I'm fighting for my life."
"And I lose mine either way."
"How do you make that out? Who's there to be afraid of except me?"
"If I do marry you I might as well be dead, and if I don't you'll do your best to bring my death about."