Although he attached himself quite deliberately to Jeremy, he did this in no sentimental fashion, and in his animosities towards the Jampot, Aunt Amy and the boy who helped with the boots and the knives, he was always restrained and courteous.

He did indeed growl at Aunt Amy, but always with such a sense of humour that everyone (except Aunt Amy) was charmed, and he never actually supported the children in their rebellions against the Jampot, although you could see that he liked and approved of such things.

The Jampot hated him with a passion that caused the nursery to quiver with emotion.

Was he not the cause of her approaching departure, his first appearance having led her into a tempest of passion that had caused her to offer a "notice" that she had never for an instant imagined would be accepted?
Was he not a devilish dog who, with, his quiet movements and sly expressions, was more than human?
"Mark my words," she said in the kitchen, "there's a devil in that there animal, and so they'll find before they're many years older--'Amlet indeed--a 'eathenish name and a 'eathenish beast." Her enemy had discovered that in one corner of the nursery there were signs and symbols that witnessed to something in the nature of a mouse or a rat.

That nursery corner became the centre of all his more adventurous instincts.