Test a public method which calls a private method using NUnit

I have a public method in a class that internally calls a particular private method within that class. It looks something like this :

public class MyClass : IMyClassInterface
{
    public List<int> MyMethod(int a, int b)
    {
        MyPrivateMethod(a, b, ref varList, ref someVal);
    }
    private void MyPrivateMethod(int a, int b, ref List<int> varList, ref double someval)
    {
    }
}

Now, I basically want to test this public method using NUnit. I am using NMock 2.0 for mocking. How do I do it? Since, it internally calls this private method which I do not want to make public. Or is there a way to do it if I turn the private method to protected instead?