No
creature can know another without the help of a body. But I
don't care to talk about that. It is time for you to go home."
So saying, North Wind lifted Diamond and bore him away.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND
I DID not see Diamond for a week or so after this, and then he
told me what I have now told you. I should have been astonished
at his being able even to report such conversations as he said
he had had with North Wind, had I not known already that some
children are profound in metaphysics. But a fear crosses me,
lest, by telling so much about my friend, I should lead people
to mistake him for one of those consequential, priggish little
monsters, who are always trying to say clever things, and
looking to see whether people appreciate them. When a child like
that dies, instead of having a silly book written about him, he
should be stuffed like one of those awful big-headed fishes you
see in museums. But Diamond never troubled his head about what
people thought of him. He never set up for knowing better than
others. The wisest things he said came out when he wanted one to
help him with some difficulty he was in. He was not even
offended with Nanny and Jim for calling him a silly. He supposed
there was something in it, though he could not quite understand
what.
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