It isn't the dollar. At least, that's not all of it.
6 seconds sound clip from the Little Women (1950) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:27:43 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- Now, tell me yours... and I'll tell you mine.
- Pay to Josephine March the sum of 1 dollar...
- In full payment for her story entitled... 'The Phantom Hand.'
- Well?
- Oh. Well, maybe it isn't much, but some day I'll get as - as much as ten dollars.
- It isn't the dollar. At least, that's not all of it.
- Well, you remember the glove that Meg couldn't find?
- I know where it is. In somebody's pocket. John Brooke's.
- That's very romantic, isn't it?
[...]