“I’ve taken your advice, sir, and have commenced to do something useful. I have gone into trade.”
“God bless my soul! Trade!”
“Yes. I’m dealing in articles—if I may call them so—of virtue.”
“You’re joking.”
“Never more serious, I assure you. To prove it I will sell you something.”
“What?”
The philanthropist laughed.
“And so it is you who have been hiding my favourite box. Hand it over this minute, you rascal.”
But Tom shook his head.