His head was held up all the time and he looked very grand.
"The Magic is in me!" he kept saying.

"The Magic is making me strong! I can feel it! I can feel it!" It seemed very certain that something was upholding and uplifting him.
He sat on the seats in the alcoves, and once or twice he sat down on the grass and several times he paused in the path and leaned on Dickon, but he would not give up until he had gone all round the garden.

When he returned to the canopy tree his cheeks were flushed and he looked triumphant.
"I did it! The Magic worked!" he cried.

"That is my first scientific discovery.".
"What will Dr.Craven say ?" broke out Mary.
"He won't say anything," Colin answered, "because he will not be told.
This is to be the biggest secret of all.

No one is to know anything about it until I have grown so strong that I can walk and run like any other boy.