What you're to be kept at Misselthwaite Manor for I don't know, unless because it's the easiest way.

_He's_ not going to trouble himself about you, that's sure and certain.

He never troubles himself about no one." She stopped herself as if she had just remembered something in time.
"He's got a crooked back," she said.

"That set him wrong.

He was a sour young man and got no good of all his money and big place till he was married." Mary's eyes turned toward her in spite of her intention not to seem to care.