She went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.

She counted the times carefully and when she had finished she felt in better spirits.

The sunshine made the whole place look different.

The high, deep, blue sky arched over Misselthwaite as well as over the moor, and she kept lifting her face and looking up into it, trying to imagine what it would be like to lie down on one of the little snow-white clouds and float about.

She went into the first kitchen-garden and found Ben Weatherstaff working there with two other gardeners.