The secret garden

1126 THE SECRET GARDEN" I'm keepin' secrets all th' time," he said." IfI couldn't keep secrets from th' other lads, secretsabout foxes' cubs, an' birds' nests, an' wildthings' holes, there'd be naught safe on th' moor.Aye, I can keep secrets."out her handMistress Mary did not mean to putand clutch his sleeve but she did it." I've stolen a garden," she said very fast. " Itisn't mine. It isn't anybody's. Nobody wantsinto it.it, nobody cares for it, nobody ever goesPerhaps everything is dead in it already; I don'tknow."She began to feel hot and as contrary as she hadever felt in her life.I don't care, I don't care !Nobody has any-to take it from me when I care about it andrightthey don't. They're letting it die, all shut in byitself," she ended passionately, and she threw herarms over her face and burst out crying poorlittle Mistress Mary.Dickon,' s curious blue eyes grew rounder androunder.''Eh-h-h ! he said, drawing his exclamationout slowly, and the way he did it meant both wonderand sympathy." I've nothing to do," said Mary." Nothingbelongs to me. I found it myself and I got intoitmyself. I was only just like the robin, andthey wouldn't take itfrom the robin."