“It's no use. We've not got anything to do.”
“Then let's wait.”
“Then we shall starve.”
“No. There's the basket. Do you know, mother, I think I shall call that basket the barn.”
“It's not a very big one. And when it's empty—where are we then?”
“At auntie's cupboard,” returned Diamond promptly.
“But we can't eat auntie's things all up and leave her to starve.”
“No, no. We'll go back to father before that. He'll have found a cupboard somewhere by that time.”
“How do you know that?”
“I don't know it. But I haven't got even a cupboard, and I've always had plenty to eat. I've heard you say I had too much, sometimes.”