We couldn't understand why she should act so.

She told Betty that night that she was afraid to go through the gate.
She remembered that in the story where the old king and the brothers of Ethelried came riding up to the portal 'the scissors leaped from their place and snapped so angrily in their faces that they turned and fled.
Only those who belong to the kingdom of loving hearts could enter in.' She told Betty that she knew she didn't belong to that kingdom, for nobody loved her, and often she didn't love anybody for days.

She was afraid to go through the gate for fear the scissors would leap down at her, and she would be so ashamed to be driven back before us all.

So she thought she would pretend that she didn't want to go in.

She had believed every word of that fairy tale.
"We had a beautiful time in the garden.