The 1861 bequest is eleven thousand a year and it is the only money this school has, and it is paid on one condition that nobody has read since 1987.

Mione reads it in the library and then reads the schedule at the back, which is where the condition actually is, because it always is.

MioneThe curfew bell is to be rung by hand, from the bell-house, on the last night of every quarter. Not by magic. By hand. One body on the rope.

CorvinaYes. I have rung it four times a year for nine years and I have never once told anybody why it has to be a person.