The Secret Garden

“And you don’t allow for feelings, then?” She interrupted me, saying that I didn’t understand. I said that I understood very well. I asked her if she didn’t make any allowances, even for love. “What does that have to do with it?” she objected. “Do you think what you have is love? This poverty, this exhausting yourself, this giving up everything, th

Until that wretched yesterday – except the moment of vexation long ago in the very same room and in the very same presence – all their vision, all their thought of each other, had been as in a world apart, where the sunshine fell on tall white lilies, where no evil lurked, and no other soul entered. But now – would Dorothea meet him in that world a

He was feeling sure that he should have no chance of speaking to Mary, when Mr Farebrother said – ‘Fred, help me to carry these drawers back into my study – you have never seen my fine new study. Pray come too, Miss Garth. I want you to see a stupendous spider I found this morning.’

On Thursday the wind dropped, and a thick grey mist gathered, as if concealing the mysteries of the changes taking place in nature.