midday
`` Why is n't there a day-wind too ? '' inquired Judy thoughtfully . `` There is , but it 's _ quite _ a different thing , '' Uncle Felix answered . `` You might as well ask why midday and midnight are n't the same because they both come at twelve o'clock . They 're simply different things . '' `` Of course , '' Tim helped him unexpectedly ; `` and a man ca n't be a woman , can it ? '' The Night-Wind 's nature , accordingly , remained a mystery rather , and its sex was also undetermined .