When the next day they set out on their journey to Yorkshire, she walked through the station to the railway carriage with her head up and trying to keep as far away from her as she could, because she did not want to seem to belong to her.

It would have made her very angry to think people imagined she was her little girl.
But Mrs.Medlock was not in the least disturbed by her and her thoughts.
She was the kind of woman who would "stand no nonsense from young ones." At least, that is what she would have said if she had been asked.

She had not wanted to go to London just when her sister Maria's daughter was going to be married, but she had a comfortable, well paid place as housekeeper at Misselthwaite Manor and the only way in which she could keep it was to do at once what Mr.Archibald Craven told her to do.

She never dared even to ask a question.
"Captain Lennox and his wife died of the cholera," Mr.Craven had said in his short, cold way.

"Captain Lennox was my wife's brother and I am their daughter's guardian.