of her. She did not know that this was because
she was a disagreeable child; but then, of course,
she did not know she was disagreeable. She
often thought that other people were, but she did
not know that she was so herself.

She thought Mrs. Medlock the most disagreeable
person she had ever seen, with her common,
highly colored face and her common fine bonnet.
When the next day they set out on their journey
to Yorkshire, she walked through the station to the
railway carriage with her head up and trying to
keep as far away from her as she could, because
she did not want to seem to belong to her. It
would have made her very angry to think people
imagined she was her little girl.

But Mrs. Medlock was not in the least disturbed
by her and her thoughts. She was the kind of
woman who would "stand no nonsense from young
ones." At least, that is what she would have said
if she had been asked. She had not wanted to
go to London just when her sister Maria's daughter
was going to be married, but she had a comfortable,
well paid place as housekeeper at Misselthwaite
Manor and the only way in which she could
keep it was to do at once what Mr. Archibald
Craven told her to do. She never dared even
to ask a question.

"Captain Lennox and his wife died of the cholera,"

[[16]]

p015 _ -chap- _ toc-1 _ p016w _ toc-2 _ +chap+ _ p017

v?