'But you said I might take anything I liked,' said Philip, 'so if it's wrong it's your fault.' 'You untruthful child!' cried the nurse, and hit him over the knuckles. Now, no one had ever hit Philip before. He grew paler than ever, but he did not cry, though his hands hurt rather badly. For she had snatched up the yard-stick to hit him with, and it was hard and cornery. 'You are a coward,' said Philip, 'and it is you who are untruthful and not me.' 'Hold your tongue,' said the nurse, and whirled him off to bed. 'You'll get no supper, so there!' she said, angrily tucking him up. 'I don't want any,' said Philip, 'and I have to forgive you before the sun goes down.' 'Forgive, indeed!' said she, flouncing out. 'When you get sorry you'll know I've forgiven you,' Philip called after her, which, of course, made her angrier than ever. Whether Philip cried when he was alone is not our business. Susan, who had watched the shaking and the hitting without daring to interfere, crept up later with milk and sponge-cakes. She found him asleep, and she says his eyelashes were wet. When he awoke he thought at first that it was morning, the room was so light. But presently he saw that it was not yellow sunlight but white moonshine which made the beautiful brightness. He wondered at first why he felt so unhappy, then he remembered how Helen had gone away and how hateful the nurse had been. And now she would pull down the city and Helen would never see it. And he would never be able to build such a beautiful one again. In the morning it would be gone, and he would not be able even to remember how it was built. The moonlight was very bright. 'I wonder how my city looks by moonlight?' he said. And then, all in a thrilling instant, he made up his mind to go down and see for himself how it did look. He slipped on his dressing-gown, opened his door softly, and crept along the corridor and down the broad staircase, then along the gallery and into the drawing-room. It was very dark, but he felt his way to a window and undid the shutter, and there lay his city, flooded with moonlight, just as he had imagined it.