 "Dowerless" remains the youngest daughter Larisa, for whom the richest merchant in Bryakhimov, Mokiy Parmenovich Knurov, has amorous feelings.But he is aged and already married which makes him ineligible as a groom, nevertheless Harita Ignatyevna uses his infatuation with her daughter to receive money and expensive gifts.Another suitor is a young successful businessman and childhood friend of Larisa, Vasiliy Danilovich Vozhevatov, quite rich, but not quite enough to afford to marry a woman with no dowry.