"You are a dear good, boy" said North Wind. "I will come for you
again to-morrow night and take you out for a longer time. We shall
make a little journey together, in fact. We shall start earlier.
and as the moon will be, later, we shall have a little moonlight all
the way."

She rose, and swept over the meadow and the trees. In a few moments
the Mound appeared below them. She sank a little, and floated
in at the window of Diamond's room. There she laid him on his bed,
covered him over, and in a moment he was lapt in a dreamless sleep.



CHAPTER XXXVII

ONCE MORE


THE next night Diamond was seated by his open window, with his head
on his hand, rather tired, but so eagerly waiting for the promised
visit that he was afraid he could not sleep. But he started suddenly,
and found that he had been already asleep. He rose, and looking
out of the window saw something white against his beech-tree. It
was North Wind. She was holding by one hand to a top branch.
Her hair and her garments went floating away behind her over the tree,
whose top was swaying about while the others were still.

"Are you ready, Diamond?" she asked.