Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there’s no way I’d do anything to undermine that belief.

On its face the remark is comic—an adult insisting on belief in Father Christmas—but it also points to Duffy’s recurring interest in the sustaining power of stories and chosen fictions. The “household” becomes a small theatre where belief is protected because it creates warmth, ritual, and a shared imaginative world. The line also hints at the ethics of enchantment: not everything true needs to be said if truth would flatten wonder or damage communal joy. Read this way, the quote treats Christmas not as doctrine but as a practice of imagination, where maintaining belief is a deliberate act of care.