The horse is over in the yard . Give me your bag . '' `` Oh , I can carry it , '' the child responded cheerfully . `` It is n't heavy . I 've got all my worldly goods in it , but it is n't heavy . And if it is n't carried in just a certain way the handle pulls out -- so I 'd better keep it because I know the exact knack of it . It 's an extremely old carpet-bag . Oh , I 'm very glad you 've come , even if it would have been nice to sleep in a wild cherry-tree . We 've got to drive a long piece , have n't we ? Mrs. Spencer said it was eight miles . I 'm glad because I love driving . Oh , it seems so wonderful that I 'm going to live with you and belong to you . I 've never belonged to anybody -- not really . But the asylum was the worst . I 've only been in it four months , but that was enough . I do n't suppose you ever were an orphan in an asylum , so you ca n't possibly understand what it is like . It 's worse than anything you could imagine . Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that , but I did n't mean to be wicked . It 's so easy to be wicked without knowing it , is n't it ? They were good , you know -- the asylum people .
But there is so little scope for the imagination in an asylum -- only just XXXXX the other orphans .
because if in like of so than that to without