With it are interwoven character-incidents that echo the title-motto and harp on the note of Rousseau and Henry Brooke: the choice of the two boys between a warm great-coat and a green and white uniform, which culminates with perfect logic in Ben's loan of the despised coat to cover Hal's spoilt finery; and the minor choice between queen-cakes and keeping one's halfpence to give to a beggar.
