Crilly?
MRS. CRILLY
Three hundred pounds is a very severe loss.
SCOLLARD
Very severe, indeed. Still, you understand, Mrs. Crilly,
the difficulties of taking such a step as marriage without adequate
provision.
CRILLY
Damn it all, man, Marianne and myself married without
anything at all.
MRS. CRILLY
_(bitterly)_ Anna won't be such a fool as her mother.
CRILLY
Well, Scollard has his position, and we helped him to it.
SCOLLARD
I acknowledge that.
ANNA
Isn't my portion eighty pounds, mother?
MRS. CRILLY
Yes, Anna. But I'd like to tell Mr. Scollard that it
would come as a strain on us to let the money go at once.
SCOLLARD
I daresay, Mrs. Crilly.
ANNA
But, mother, wouldn't the money be safer with us?
MRS. CRILLY
Well, I leave the whole thing in the hands of Mr.
Scollard.
SCOLLARD
Anna and myself have been talking things over, Mrs. Crilly.
ANNA
And we don't want to begin life in a poor way.
SCOLLARD
We see the advantage of being always solvent, Mrs. Crilly.
ANNA
James has ambitions, and there's no reason why he shouldn't
venture for the post of Secretary of the County Council when old
Mr. Dobbs retires.
SCOLLARD
In a few years, Mrs. Crilly, when I had more official
experience and some reputation.
ANNA
Then he would have seven or eight hundred a year.
SCOLLARD
As I said, a man like myself would want to be in a
perfectly solvent position.
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