The word “surreptitious”

As we went over The Turbid Edd and Flow of Misery by Margaret Sanger,  an interesting world come across me and that was the word “surreptitious”. The world is seen when Sanger describes one of the situations she was in, “the utmost depression came over [her] as [she] approached this surreptitious region” and if we look closely we find that she is describing a part that could be unfamiliar to her (Sanger 2). Truly the world “surreptitious” means acting or doing something clandestinely, according to Merriam Webster dictionary. what the word means to me or how i comprehend it as is “stealthy” or “secret” in other words. With that finally cleared up i could understand that Margaret is telling us how secret this side of of society is to the rest of the world which make sInce during that time period.