The secret garden

THE KEY OF THE GARDEN 79an' says: Tha' young vixon, tha' ! There tha'stands sayin' tha' doesn't like this one an' tha'doesn't like that one. How does tha' like thysel'? 'It made me laugh an' itbrought me to mysenses in a minute.'She went away in high spiritshad given Mary her breakfast.as soon as sheShe was goingto walk five miles across the moor to the cottage,and she was going to help her mother with thewashing and do the week's baking and enjoy herselfthoroughly.felt lonelier than ever when she knewMaryshe was no longer in the house. She went outinto the garden as quickly as possible, and the firstthing she did was to run round and round the fountainflower garden ten times. She counted thetimes carefully and when she had finished she feltin better spirits. The sunshine made the wholeplace look different. The high, deep, blue skyarched over Misselthwaite as well as over themoor, and she kept lifting her face and lookingup into it, trying to imagine what it would be liketo lie down on one of the little snow-white clouds,/and float about. She went into the first kitchengardenand found Ben Weatherstaff working therewith two other gardeners. The change in theweather seemed to have done him good. Hespoke to her of his own accord.