consider this passage from The Secret Garden I'm lonely she says she had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sore and crossed she seem to find it out when the Robin and looked at her and she looked at the robin which theme from the novel is apparent in this passage?
loneliness is apparent in the passage, because first of all she is clearly lonely, and second of all because loneliness is a theme throughout the majority of the novel.