"I'm right down glad.
It makes me easier.
I knowed I must say nothin' about him an' I don't like havin' to hide things." "Don't you like hiding the garden ?" said Mary. "I'll never tell about it," he answered.
"But I says to mother, 'Mother,' I says, 'I got a secret to keep.
It's not a bad 'un, tha' knows that.