Marlena: "He sold off two dead-beat clowns and a train car so he could buy Lucinda, our lovely fat lady. And Rex."
August: "Rex."
Marlena: "But you kept the coochie girls, didn't you?"
August: "No denying they're good revenue. I needed money. So I had to scavenge every dead circus for every act we have."
Marlena: "you didn't have to buy me, did you?"
August: "No. I had to marry you."
Marlena: "That's right."