They all know that.

I would make them tell me." Mary had not known that she herself had been spoiled, but she could see quite plainly that this mysterious boy had been.

He thought that the whole world belonged to him.

How peculiar he was and how coolly he spoke of not living.
"Do you think you won't live ?" she asked, partly because she was curious and partly in hope of making him forget the garden.
"I don't suppose I shall," he answered as indifferently as he had spoken before.

"Ever since I remember anything I have heard people say I shan't.