"I know, from the only facts which as yet are established, that, at present, I'm a pauper."
"Well, we're both of us paupers; all the better."
"I don't agree."
"You're taking your cue from my mother."
"I should prove myself very foolish if I need take such a cue from any one."
"There's a wisdom of the foolish which is sometimes wonderful. If you were to marry me tomorrow----"
"As if I should!"
"You'd make my fortune!"
"When, as you've told me again and again, you live on charity; and directly you married me that charity would stop?"
"I know a way by which I could earn two or three hundred a year right off; before long I'd be earning thousands; I'm not incapable, I only need a spur; to work for the woman I love! I ask for nothing better. If I marry a woman with money the probability is that I should never earn a penny."