But then I suppose they don't know better, and so they can't help it.

We mustn't be too hard upon them, father says." "Your father must be a good man, Diamond." Diamond looked up in Mr.
Raymond's face, wondering what he could mean.
"I said your father must be a good man, Diamond." "Of course," said Diamond.

"How could he drive a cab if he wasn't ?" "There are some men who drive cabs who are not very good," objected Mr.
Raymond.
Diamond remembered the drunken cabman, and saw that his friend was right.
"Ah, but," he returned, "he must be, you know, with such a horse as old Diamond." "That does make a difference," said Mr.Raymond.

"But it is quite enough that he is a good man without our trying to account for it.

Now, if you like, I will give you a proof that I think him a good man.