They shan't make me miserable if I can help it." I do not mean that he thought these very words.

They are perhaps too grown-up for him to have thought, but they represent the kind of thing that was in his heart and his head.

And when heart and head go together, nothing can stand before them.
"What nice bread and butter this is!" said Diamond.
"I'm glad you like it, my dear" said his father.

"I bought the butter myself at the little shop round the corner." "It's very nice, thank you, father.

Oh, there's baby waking! I'll take him." "Sit still, Diamond," said his mother.