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`` Certainly ; and Issa too . '' Matilda said no more , but hastily made herself ready , and went down with the rest . Anne and Letitia were to leave home in the afternoon of Monday ; and Maria and Matilda went to school that morning as usual . But when the noon hour came , Matilda called her sister into a corner of the emptied schoolroom , and sat down with a face of business . `` What is the matter ? '' said Maria . `` We must go home to dinner . ''