The secret garden

THE CRY IN THE CORRIDOR 63At that moment a very good thing was happeningto her. Four good things had happened toher, in fact, since she came to MisselthwaiteManor. She had felt as if she had understood arobin and that he had understood her; she hadrun in the wind until her blood had grown warm;she had been healthily hungry for the first time inher life; and she had found out what it was to besorry for some one. She was getting on.But as she was listening to the wind she beganto listen to something else. She did not knowwhat it was, because at first she could scarcely distinguishit from the wind itself. It was a curioussound it seemed almost as if a child were cryingsomewhere. Sometimes the wind soundedrather like a child crying, but presently MistressMary felt quite sure that this sound was insidethe house, not outside it. It was far away, butit was inside. She turned round and looked atMartha." Do you hear any one crying? ' she said.Martha suddenly looked confused." u No," she answered. It's th' wind. Sometimesit sounds like as if some one was lost on thVmoor an' wailin'. It's got all sorts o' sounds."" " But listen," said Mary. It's in the housedown one of those long corridors."And at that very moment a door must have been