Where should they go?
Of course to London, where work was thought to be plentiful.

They had a little savings, and they thought they could get two decent rooms to live in.

But the inexorable land question met them in London.

They tried the decent courts for lodgings, and found that two rooms would cost ten shillings a week.

Food was dear and bad, water was bad, and in a short time their health suffered.