"No," she said at last, "I did not eat a baby. You would not have had
to ask that foolish question if you had not let go your hold of me.
You would have seen how I served a nurse that was calling a child
bad names, and telling her she was wicked. She had been drinking.
I saw an ugly gin bottle in a cupboard."

"And you frightened her?" said Diamond.

"I believe so!" answered North Wind laughing merrily. "I flew
at her throat, and she tumbled over on the floor with such a crash
that they ran in. She'll be turned away to-morrow--and quite time,
if they knew as much as I do."

"But didn't you frighten the little one?"

"She never saw me. The woman would not have seen me either if she
had not been wicked."

"Oh!" said Diamond, dubiously.

"Why should you see things," returned North Wind, "that you wouldn't
understand or know what to do with? Good people see good things;
bad people, bad things."

"Then are you a bad thing?"

"No. For you see me, Diamond, dear," said the girl, and she looked
down at him, and Diamond saw the loving eyes of the great lady
beaming from the depths of her falling hair.