The heart of it must be ever so much farther from the sides than they are from each other.

How could it have an inside that was so independent of its outside?
There's the point.

It was funny--wasn't it, Diamond ?" "No," said Diamond.

He was going to say that that was very much the sort of thing at the back of the north wind; but he checked himself and only added, "All right.

I don't see it.