One evening, Mother Mouse called to her baby. "Come, Arthur," she said. "Now that you are old enough, you may stay up after dark. Let us watch the night." Arthur ran happily to the door of the nest and looked out. The black sky was all around him. Darkness was everywhere. The night was still and cool. Arthur felt the coolness on his little, pointed nose. It touched his whiskers and his round little ears. "So this is what the night is like!" he said happily. "It is lovely!" - p. 9-10.