秘密花园 3 -3 有字幕

The SecretGarden

Chapter 3(3)

It was"after a bit," as she said, for when the carriage passed through thepark gates there was still two miles of avenue to drive through and the trees(which nearly met overhead) made it seem as if they were driving through a longdark vault.

They droveout of the vault into a clear space and stopped before an immensely long butlow-built house which seemed to ramble round a stone court. At first Marythought that there were no lights at all in the windows, but as she got out ofthe carriage she saw that one room in a corner upstairs showed a dull glow.

The entrancedoor was a huge one made of massive, curiously shaped panels of oak studdedwith big iron nails and bound with great iron bars. It opened into an enormoushall, which was so dimly lighted that the faces in the portraits on the wallsand the figures in the suits of armor made Mary feel that she did not want tolook at them. As she stood on the stone floor she looked a very small, oddlittle black figure, and she felt as small and lost and odd as she looked.

A neat, thinold man stood near the manservant who opened the door for them.

"Youare to take her to her room," he said in a husky voice. "He doesn'twant to see her. He's going to London in the morning."

"Verywell, Mr. Pitcher," Mrs. Medlock answered. "So long as I know what'sexpected of me, I can manage."

"What'sexpected of you, Mrs. Medlock," Mr. Pitcher said, "is that you makesure that he's not disturbed and that he doesn't see what he doesn't want tosee."

And thenMary Lennox was led up a broad staircase and down a long corridor and up ashort flight of steps and through another corridor and another, until a dooropened in a wall and she found herself in a room with a fire in it and a supperon a table.

Mrs. Medlocksaid unceremoniously:

"Well,here you are! This room and the next are where you'll live--and you must keepto them. Don't you forget that!"

It was inthis way Mistress Mary arrived at Misselthwaite Manor and she had perhaps neverfelt quite so contrary in all her life.