She wanted to stay in the mysterious hidden-away room and talk to the mysterious boy.
"What do you want me to tell you ?" she said.
He wanted to know how long she had been at Misselthwaite; he wanted to know which corridor her room was on; he wanted to know what she had been doing; if she disliked the moor as he disliked it; where she had lived before she came to Yorkshire.

She answered all these questions and many more and he lay back on his pillow and listened.

He made her tell him a great deal about India and about her voyage across the ocean.

She found out that because he had been an invalid he had not learned things as other children had.

One of his nurses had taught him to read when he was quite little and he was always reading and looking at pictures in splendid books.
Though his father rarely saw him when he was awake, he was given all sorts of wonderful things to amuse himself with.