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"It is perfectly clear," Philip declared, with a note of mockery in his tone so faint that neither of his companions noticed it, "that our task, Rosina, ought to be an easy one. You cannot mount many rungs of the ladder of your desire in Norchester, Matthew. We brought you out here this afternoon to tell you that Rosina and I intend to leave this place almost at once, and to ask you to join us."

"Where are you going to?" Matthew asked.

"To London," they answered in one breath.

"Have you told Uncle Benjamin?"

"We are going to tell him to-night," Rosina replied. "We thought that if you decided to come too, you might help us. You seem to be able to talk to Uncle Benjamin better than we do."

"How much money have you got?" Matthew enquired.

"Rosina has eighty-five pounds," Philip answered, "and I have about a hundred and forty. You will have the hundred pounds that is coming to you to-night, and you have probably saved something."

Matthew very nearly smiled. His Post-Office Savings Bank book had been his most treasured possession for the last five years.