Only then again, nobody had told her father and mother that they ought to set her going in that direction.

So as none of them would find it out of themselves, North Wind had to teach them.
We know that North Wind was very busy that night on which she left Diamond in the cathedral.

She had in a sense been blowing through and through the Colemans' house the whole of the night.

First, Miss Coleman's maid had left a chink of her mistress's window open, thinking she had shut it, and North Wind had wound a few of her hairs round the lady's throat.

She was considerably worse the next morning.