Come on." Diamond obeyed.

The wind had now fallen considerably.

They wandered on and on, turning in this direction and that, without any reason for one way more than another, until they had got out of the thick of the houses into a waste kind of place.

By this time they were both very tired.
Diamond felt a good deal inclined to cry, and thought he had been very silly to get down from the back of North Wind; not that he would have minded it if he had done the girl any good; but he thought he had been of no use to her.

He was mistaken there, for she was far happier for having Diamond with her than if she had been wandering about alone.