Mabel Tolkien:
Boys, listen to me. Do you know what impecunious circumstances are?
J.R.R. Tolkien (Young):
They're what we're in?
Mabel Tolkien:
When I was a little girl, all the new novels began like this: a family of good and brave people who suddenly find themselves in impecunious circumstances...
J.R.R. Tolkien (Young):
How did they escape?
Mabel Tolkien:
By coming across some marvelous treasure. Or else, by marrying well.
Hilary Tolkien (Young):
I'm not marrying anyone!
Mabel Tolkien:
Well, it'll have to be the treasure then - won't it?
J.R.R. Tolkien (Young):
But, um, people don't find treasure, mother. Not in real life.
Mabel Tolkien:
There's no fooling you, is there, John Ronald? Let's just say there's treasure, and there's *treasure* - and leave it at that.
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