The secret garden

1 6 THE SECRET GARDENof her. She did not know that this was becauseshe was a disagreeable child; but then, of course,she did not know she was disagreeable. Sheoften thought that other people were, but she didnot know that she was so herself.She thought Mrs. Medlock the most disagreeableperson she had ever seen, with her common,highlycolored face and her common fine bonnet.When the next day they set out on their journeyto Yorkshire, she walked through the station to therailway carriage with her head up and trying tokeep as far away from her as she could, becauseshe did not want to seem to belong to her. Itwould have made her very angry to think peopleimagined she was her little girl.But Mrs. Medlock was not in the least disturbedby her and her thoughts. She was the kind ofwoman who would " stand no nonsense from youngones." At least, that is what she would have saidif she had been asked. She had not wanted togo to London just when her sister Maria's daughterwas going to be married, but she had a comfortable,well paid place as housekeeperat MisselthwaiteManor and the only way in which she couldkeepit was to do at once what Mr. ArchibaldCraven told her to do. She never dared even*o ask a question.*Captain Lennox and his wife died of the chol-