The secret garden

'244 THE SECRET GARDENany disagreeablescenes. When he went downstairshe looked very thoughtful and when hetalked to Mrs. Medlock in the library she felt thathe was a much puzzled man." Well, sir," she ventured, u could you have believedit?"" It is certainly a new state of affairs," said thedoctor." And there's no denyingit is betterthan the old one."" I believe Susan Sowerby's right I do that,"usaid Mrs. Medlock. I stopped in her cottageon my way to Thwaite yesterday and had a bit oftalk with her. And she says to me, Well, SarahAnn, she mayn't be a good child, an' she mayn't bea pretty one, but she's a child, an' children needschildren.' We went to school together, SusanSowerby and me."" She's the best sick nurse I know," said Dr.Craven." When I find her in a cottage I knowthe chances are that IMrs. Medlock smiled.shall save my patient."She was fond of SusanSowerby." She's got a way with her, has Susan," she wenton quite volubly." I've been thinking all morningof one thing she said yesterday. She says,1Once when I was givin' th' children a bit of apreach after they'd been fightin' I ses to 'em " all,When I was at school my jography told as th'