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Afterwards, when they looked back upon that day, they knew that the thing had decided itself then, though neither of them had said so.
"The truth was," Robin used to say, "we had both been thinking the same thing, as we always do, but we had been thinking it in the back part of our minds. We were afraid to let it come to the front at first, because it seemed such a big thing. But it went on thinking by itself. That time, when you said ‘We shall _never_ see it,' and I said, ‘How do you know? ' we were both thinking about it in one way; and I know I was thinking about it when I said, ‘We are not going to stay here always. That is the first step up the Hill of Difficulty."