Two Little Pilgrims' Progress. Burnett Frances Hodgson

she responded to it now.

      “If I could do anything I set my mind to,” she said, “do you know what I would set my mind to first?”

      “What?”

      “I would set my mind to going to that wonderful place. I would set it to seeing everything there, and remembering all I could hold, and learning all there was to be learned – and I would set it hard.”

      “So would I,” said Robin.

      It was a more suggestive voice than before that he said the words in; and suddenly he got up, and went and tore away the straw from the burying-place of the Treasure. He took out the old iron bank, and brought it back to their corner.

      He did it so suddenly, and with such a determined air, that Meg rather lost her breath.

      “What are you going to do with the Treasure?” she asked.