[The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett]@TWC D-Link bookThe Secret Garden CHAPTER XII 10/25
She said nothing while her dress was changed, and her hair brushed, and after she was quite tidy she followed Mrs. Medlock down the corridors, in silence.
What was there for her to say? She was obliged to go and see Mr.Craven and he would not like her, and she would not like him.
She knew what he would think of her. She was taken to a part of the house she had not been into before.
At last Mrs.Medlock knocked at a door, and when some one said, "Come in," they entered the room together.
A man was sitting in an armchair before the fire, and Mrs.Medlock spoke to him. "This is Miss Mary, sir," she said. "You can go and leave her here.
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