The secret garden

ACROSS THE MOOR 25found herself seated in a comfortably cushionedcorner, but she was not inclined to go to sleepagain. She sat and looked out of the window,curious to see something of the road over which shewas being driven to the queer place Mrs. Medlockhad spoken of. She was not at all a timidchild and she was not exactly frightened, but shefelt that there was no knowing what might happenin a house with a hundred rooms nearly all shutup a house standing on the edge of a moor." What is a moor? " she said suddenly to Mrs.Medlock." Look out of the window in about ten minutesand you'll see," the woman answered." We've got to drive five miles across Missel Moorbefore we get to the Manor. You won't see muchbecause it's a dark night, but you can see something."Mary asked no more questionsbut waited inthe darkness of her corner, keeping her eyes onthe window. The carriage lamps cast rays oflight a little distance ahead of them and she caughtglimpses of the things they passed. After theyhad left the station they had driven through atiny village and she had seen whitewashed cottagesand the lights of a public house. Then theyhad passed a church and a vicarage and a littleshop-window or so in a cottage with toys and