It was enough, however, to allow Diamond to see that North Wind stood beside him.

He looked up to find her face, and saw that she was no longer a beautiful giantess, but the tall gracious lady he liked best to see.

She took his hand, and, giving him the broad part of the spiral stair to walk on, led him down a good way; then, opening another little door, led him out upon a narrow gallery that ran all round the central part of the church, on the ledges of the windows of the clerestory, and through openings in the parts of the wall that divided the windows from each other.

It was very narrow, and except when they were passing through the wall, Diamond saw nothing to keep him from falling into the church.

It lay below him like a great silent gulf hollowed in stone, and he held his breath for fear as he looked down.
"What are you trembling for, little Diamond ?" said the lady, as she walked gently along, with her hand held out behind her leading him, for there was not breadth enough for them to walk side by side.
"I am afraid of falling down there," answered Diamond.