Children alter so much." "She'll have to alter a good deal," answered Mrs.Medlock.

"And there's nothing likely to improve children at Misselthwaite--if you ask me!" They thought Mary was not listening because she was standing a little apart from them at the window of the private hotel they had gone to.

She was watching the passing buses and cabs, and people, but she heard quite well and was made very curious about her uncle and the place he lived in.

What sort of a place was it, and what would he be like?
What was a hunchback?
She had never seen one.

Perhaps there were none in India.
Since she had been living in other people's houses and had had no Ayah, she had begun to feel lonely and to think queer thoughts which were new to her.