It's making too much of yourself, my child.

If I had been South Wind, he would only have smoked his pipe all day, and made himself stupid." "But how could he be a man of sense and grumble at you when you were doing your best for him ?" "Oh! you must make allowances," said North Wind, "or you will never do justice to anybody .-- You do understand, then, that a captain may sail north----" "In spite of a north wind--yes," supplemented Diamond.
"Now, I do think you must be stupid, my dear" said North Wind.

"Suppose the north wind did not blow where would he be then ?" "Why then the south wind would carry him." "So you think that when the north wind stops the south wind blows.
Nonsense.

If I didn't blow, the captain couldn't sail his eighty miles a day.

No doubt South Wind would carry him faster, but South Wind is sitting on her doorstep then, and if I stopped there would be a dead calm.