“Oh, yes! I should, please.” So his aunt gave him some lemonade, for she had been used to nursing sick people, and Diamond felt very much refreshed, and laid his head down again to go very fast asleep, as he thought. And so he did, but only to come awake again, as a fresh burst of wind blew the lattice open a second time. The same moment he found himself in a cloud of North Wind's hair, with her beautiful face, set in it like a moon, bending over him. “Quick, Diamond!” she said. “I have found such a chance!” “But I'm not well,” said Diamond. “I know that, but you will be better for a little fresh air. You shall have plenty of that.” “You want me to go, then?” “Yes, I do. It won't hurt you.” “Very well,” said Diamond; and getting out of the bed-clothes, he jumped into North Wind's arms. “We must make haste before your aunt comes,” said she, as she glided out of the open lattice and left it swinging. The moment Diamond felt her arms fold around him he began to feel better. It was a moonless night, and very dark, with glimpses of stars when the clouds parted. “I used to dash the waves about here,” said North Wind, “where cows and sheep are feeding now; but we shall soon get to them. There they are.” And Diamond, looking down, saw the white glimmer of breaking water far below him. “You see, Diamond,” said North Wind, “it is very difficult for me to get you to the back of the north wind, for that country lies in the very north itself, and of course I can't blow northwards.” “Why not?” asked Diamond. “You little silly!” said North Wind. “Don't you see that if I were to blow northwards I should be South Wind, and that is as much as to say that one person could be two persons?” “But how can you ever get home at all, then?” “You are quite right--that is my home, though I never get farther than the outer door. I sit on the doorstep, and hear the voices inside. I am nobody there, Diamond.” “I'm very sorry.” “Why?” “That you should be nobody.” “Oh, I don't mind it. Dear little man! you will be very glad some day to be nobody yourself. But you can't understand that now, and you had better not try; for if you do, you will be certain to go fancying some egregious nonsense, and making yourself miserable about it.” “Then I won't,” said Diamond. “There's a good boy. It will all come in good time.” “But you haven't told me how you get to the doorstep, you know.” “It is easy enough for me. I have only to consent to be nobody, and there I am. I draw into myself and there I am on the doorstep. But you can easily see, or you have less sense than I think, that to drag you, you heavy thing, along with me, would take centuries, and I could not give the time to it.” “Oh, I'm so sorry!” said Diamond. “What for now, pet?” “That I'm so heavy for you. I would be lighter if I could, but I don't know how.” “You silly darling! Why, I could toss you a hundred miles from me if I liked. It is only when I am going home that I shall find you heavy.”