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`` So I would venture to suppose ; but she is unknown to me . I will write again , and thank him , and say that I will be with him at ten to the moment . '' There were still many things to be settled before the journey could be made . Mr. Crawley , in his first plan , proposed that he should go up by night mail train , travelling in the third class , having walked over to Silverbridge to meet it ; that he should then walk about London from 5 A.M. to 10 A.M. , and afterwards come down by an afternoon train to which a third class was also attached . But at last his wife persuaded him that such a task as that , performed in the middle of the winter , would be enough to kill any man , and that , if attempted , it would certainly kill him ; and he consented at last to sleep the night in town , -- being specially moved thereto by discovering that he could , in conformity with this scheme , get in and out of the train at a station considerably nearer to him than Silverbridge , and that he could get a return-ticket at a third-class fare . The whole journey , he found , could be done for a pound , allowing him seven shillings for his night 's expenses in London ; and out of the resources of the family there were produced two sovereigns , so that in the event of accident he would not utterly be a castaway from want of funds . So he started on his journey after an early dinner , almost hopeful through the new excitement of a journey to London , and his wife walked with him nearly as far as the station .