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Play where you Like. Is there anything that you want?" Mary came a step nearer to him, and her voice shook 4 little as she spoke. ‘Could I ~ could I have a bit of garden?’ Mr Craven Looked very surprised. “To plant seeds in ... to make them come alive!’ Mary went on bravely. ‘It was too hot in India, so T was always ill and tired there. But here it's different. I... I love the garden!’ He passed a hand quickly over his eyes. Then he looked kindly at Mary. ‘I knew someone once who Loved growing things, like you. Yes, child, take as much of the garden as you want’ He smiled gently at her. ‘Now leave me. I'm very tired. ‘Mary ran all the way back to her room. ‘Martha!’ she shouted. ‘Mr Craven's really a nice man, but he looks very unhappy. 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Dickon listened carefully to the robin’s song. “He's saying he's your friend,’ he told Mary. ‘Really? Oh, Lampleased helikes me.Can you understand everything that birds say?" ‘I think I do, and they think I do. I've lived on the moor with them for so long. Sometimes I think I am a bird or an animal, not a boy at all!’ His smile was the widest she had ever seen. He explained how to plant the seeds. Suddenly he said, ‘Ican help you plant them! Where's your garden?” ‘Mary went red, then white. She had never thought of this. What was she going to say? ‘Could you keep a secret? It's a great secret. If anyone discovers it, I'll... I’U diel” ‘Tkeep secrets for all the wild birds and animals on the moor. So I can keep yours too,’ he replied. ‘Tve stolen a garden,’ she said very fast. ‘Nobody goes into it, nobody wants it. I love it and nobody takes care of it! They're Letting it die!’ And she threw her arms over her face and started crying. 2 Find words in the word snake to complete the sentences. It was five miles rom the house to Martha's _cottcige Mary was pleased that the robin «tong the wall Mary put the old key safely in her Using both hands, Mary managed to the door. ‘The garden was the most place Mary had ever seen. 1 2 3 4 Martha's mother bought Mary a 5 6 7 ‘Mary asked Dickon if he could keep a 3 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? 1 The garden had been shut for eight years, 2. Noone saw Mary go into the secret garden. 3 Ben used to work in a garden which had a lot of roses, 4 Dickon brought a wild horse when he came to see Mary. 5 Mr Craven told Mary she could have her own garden. 6 After meeting him, Mary thought that her uncle was a horrid man. 4 What do you think happens next? Tick the boxes. 1 Mary loses the key to the garden. 2. Mary finds out who has been crying. 3. 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Burmoyq som pum auy pud ‘uo6o Bumps peyo3s poy: ups FiaoaH “dn ayom funy 3yB1u ay; fo ayppiw ayy u uyjo9 Busey szsievH5 seieftea5 ga fran fumnsquat asmatt {fry arial ith crow abig back birt 28 Cuapter 4 Meeting Dickon Mz spent nearly a week working in the secret garden. Each day she found new shoots coming out of the ground. Soon there would be flowers everywhere ~ thousands of them. It was an exciting game to her. When she was inside those beautiful old walls, no one knew where she was. During that week she became more friendly with Ben, who was often digging in one of the vegetable gardens. ‘What are your favourite flowers, Ben?” she asked him one day. ‘Roses. used to work for a young lady who loved roses, you see, and she had a Lot in her garden. That was ten years ago. But she died. Very sad, it was’ “What happened to the roses?" asked Mary. “They were left there, in the garden’ ‘Tf rose branches look dry and grey, are they asked Mary. It was so important to know! ‘In the spring they'll show green shoots, and then ~ But why are you so interested in roses?” he asked. Mary's face went red. ‘T just ... wanted to pretend I've got a garden. I haven't got anyone to play with’ “Well, that’s true,’ said Ben. He seemed to feel sorry for her. Mary decided she liked old Ben, although he was sometimes bad-tempered. She skipped along and into the wood at the end of the gardens. Suddenly she heard a strange noise, and there in front of her was a boy. He was sitting under a tree, playing on a wooden pipe. He was about twelve, with a healthy red {face and bright blue eyes. There was a squirrel and a crow in the tree, and two rabbits sitting on the grass near him alive?’ “Well, no one ever told me you'd come to live here. I'm ill, you see. I don’t want people to see me and talk about me. If Tlive, I may have a crooked back like my father, but TU probably die’ ‘What @ strange house this is!” said Mary. ‘So many secrets! Does your father come and see you often?” ‘Not often. He doesn’t like seeing me because it makes him remember my mother. She died when I was born, because of an accident, so he almost hates me, I think’ “Why do you say you're going to die?’ asked Mary. ‘T've always been ilL. I've nearly died several times, and my back’s never been strong. My doctor, Dr Craven, feels sure that I'm going to die. But he's my father’s cousin, and very poor, so he'd like me to die. Then he'd get all the money when my father dies. He gives me medicine and tells me to rest. We had a grand doctor from London once, who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well. But I hate fresh air. And another thing, all the servants have to do what I want, because if I'm angry, I become ill ‘Mary thought she liked this boy, although he seemed so strange. He asked her lots of questions, and she told him al about her life in India. ‘How old are you?’ he asked suddenly. 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She skipped through the gardens until she found Ben Weatherstaff, who was digging and talking to his robin. She wanted them both to see her “Well!’ said Ben. ‘You're Looking fine and healthy today! Go on skipping. It’s good for you.” Mary skipped all the way to the secret garden walll. And ‘there was the robin! He had followed her! Mary was very pleased. “You showed me where the key was yesterday,’ she laughed. ‘I've got it in my pocket. So you ought to show me the door today!” The robin hopped on to an old climbing plant on the wall and sang his most beautiful song. Suddenly the wind made the plant move and Mary saw something under the Then Mary said, ‘Imust tell you something. You probably know about Colin Craven, don’t you? Well, I've met him, ‘and I’m going to help him to get better: “That's good news’ There was a big smile on Dickon's honest face. ‘We all knew he was ill.” ‘He's afraid he'll have a crooked back like his father. I think that's what's making him ill’ “Perhaps we can bring him here and let him rest under the trees. That'll do him good. That's what we'll do.’ They had a lot of gardening and planning to do and Mary did not have time to visit Colin that day. When she came back to the house in the evening, Martha told her that the servants had had trouble with Colin. ‘He's been very bad-tempered all afternoon with all of us, because you didn't come, miss.” “Well, Iwas busy. He'll have to Learn not to be so selfish,’ replied Mary coldly. She forgot how selfish she had been when she was ill in India. ‘I'll go and see him now! When she went into his room, he was lying in bed, looking tired. He did not turn to Look at her. “What's the matter with you?’ she asked crossly. ‘My back aches and my head hurts. 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How lovely it would be to find the garden and see what had happened to it in the Last ten years! She could play in it all by herself, and nobody would know she was there. She put the key safely in her pocket. The next morning Martha was back at Misselthwaite Manor, and told Mary all about her day with her family. ‘T really enjoyed myself. I helped Mother with the whole week's washing and baking. And Itold the children about you. They wanted to know about your servants and the ship that brought you to England, and every} ‘Ican tell you some more for next time,’ offered Mary. “They'd like to hear about riding on elephants and camels, wouldn't they?’ time. ‘What do you mean? You know I'm going to Everybody says I'm going to ‘I don't believe it!’ said Mary in her most disagreeable voice. ‘You just say that to make people feel sorry for you. You're too horrid to die!’ Colin forgot about his painful back and sat up in bed. ‘Get out of the room at once!” he shouted, and threw a book at her. ‘Tm going,’ Mary shouted in reply, ‘and I won't come back!’ The door banged shut behind her. When she reached her own room, she had decided never to tell him her great secret. ‘He can stay in his room and if he wants!’ she thought. But soon she began to remember how ill he had been, and how frightened he was, frightened that one day his back would become as crooked as his father’s. ‘Perhaps ... perhaps T'll go back and see him tomorrow! That night she was woken by the most terrible screams that she had ever heard. Servants were opening and shutting doors and running about. ‘It’s Colin!’ thought Mary. ‘He'll go on screaming until he makes himself really ill! How selfish he is! Somebody should stop him!” Just then Martha ran into the room. ‘We don't know what to dol’ she cried. ‘He likes you, miss! 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She remembered how disagreeable Mary had been when she first arrived. But now Mary looked interested and friendly. ‘Tl ask Mother’ said Martha. ‘She can always think of good plan. She’s sensible and hardworking and kind ~ 1 know you'll like her? ‘I like Dickon, although I've never seen hi “L wonder what Dickon will think of you?” ‘He won't like me,’ said Mary. ‘No one does.’ ‘But do you like yourself? That's what Mother would ask. ‘No, not really. I’ve never thought of that.’ “Well, I must go now. It's my day off, so I'm going home to help Mother with the housework. Goodbye, miss. See you tomorrow! Mary fett lonelier than ever when Martha had gone, so she went outside. The sunshine made the gardens look different. And the change in the weather had even made Ben Weatherstaff easier to talk to. ‘Can you smell spring in the air? he asked her. ‘Things But Colin was already asleep. The next day Mary met Dickon as usual in the secret garden, and told him about Colin. Mary loved Dickon’s Yorkshire dialect and was trying to learn it herself. She spoke a little now. “We mun get poor Colin out here in th’ sunshine - an’ we munnot Lose no time about Dickon laughed. ‘Well done! I didn’t know you could speak Yorkshire! You're right. We must bring Colin to the garden as soon as we can’ So that afternoon she went to see Colin. “Ym sorry I said I'd send Dickon away,’ he said. ‘I hated you when you said he was wonderful!’ “Well, he’s a funny boy, but he understands wild animals better than anyone.’ Suddenly Mary knew that this was the right moment to tell him. ‘Colin, this is important. Can you keep a secret?” “Yes — yes!’ he whispered excitedly. ‘What is it?” “We've found the door into the secret garden ‘Oh Mary! Will I live long enough to see it?” ‘Of course you will! Don’t be stupid!” said Mary crossly. But it was a very natural thing to say, and they both laughed. Colin told Mrs Medlock and the doctor that he wanted to go out in his wheelchair. 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When Ma a houses. looked out of her bedroom window she saw b trees. the purple moor. 4 Mary thinks that Martha is strange because «she can’t understand her dialect at all. b her servants in India never had conversations with her. Martha likes riding horses. ‘Martha told Mary to play outside because... ‘a Martha wanted to eat Mary's food. b Martha thought the fresh air would be good for Mary, © Martha wanted to talk to Mrs Medlock. 6 When Mary was outside she made friends with a the gardener. b heruncle. © Dickon, 000 COON 000 O00 O00 OOO Activities 3 Complete the sentences using the past tense of the verb in brackets. 1 Inthe middle of the night Mary WOK __(wake) up, 2 Mary (tell) col about her life in India. 3 As Mary talked, Colin (begin) to smile, 4 When Mary shouted at Colin, his sereams (stop) immediately, 5 The next day Mary (meet) Dickon in the garden. 6 DrCraven (agree) Colin could go outside. 4 Who said this? Write the names. 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But where's the door?” That evening she asked Martha to stay and talk to her beside the fire after supper. They could hear the wind blowing round the old house, but the room was warm and comfortable. Mary only had one idea in her head. ‘Tell me about the secret garden,’ she said. ‘Well, all right then, miss, but we aren’t supposed to talk about it, you know. It was Mrs Craven's favourite garden, and she and Mr Craven used to take care of it themselves. They spent hours there, reading and talking. Very happy, they were. They used the branch of an old tree as a seat. But one day when she was sitting on the branch, it broke and she fell. She was very badly hurt and the next day she died. That's why he hates the garden so much and won't let anyone go in there” ‘How sad!” said Mary, ‘Poor Mr Cravenl’ It was the first time that she had ever felt sorry for anyone. Just then, as she was listening to the wind outside, she heard another noise, in the house. ‘Can you hear a child crying?’ she asked Martha. Martha looked confused. ‘Er ~ no,’ she replied. ‘No, I think... it must be the wind’ But at that moment the wind blew open their door and they heard the crying very clearly. ‘Ltold you!’ cried Mary. At once Martha shut the door. ‘It was the wind,’ she repeated. But she did not speak in her usual natural way, and Mary did not believe her. The next day it was very rainy, so Mary did not go out. Instead she decided to wander round the house, looking into some of the hundred rooms that Mrs Medlock had ‘Tl come back here every afternoon,’ said Colin. ‘I want to watch things growing.’ ‘Soon you'll be strong enough to walk and dig. You'll be able to help us with the gardening,’ said Dickon kindly. "Do you really think I'll be able to... to walk and... dig?” asked Colin. ‘Of course you will. 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Yorkshire people always say what they are thinking, and old Ben was a Yorkshire moor man. ‘We're alike, you and me,’ he told Mary. ‘We're not pretty to look at and we're both very disagreeable’ No one had ever said this to Mary before. ‘Am I really as ugly and disagreeable as Ben?’ she wondered. Suddenly the robin flew to a tree near Mary and started singing to her. Ben Laughed loudly, ‘Welll” he said. ‘He wants to be your friend!’ ‘Oh! Would you please be my friend?’ she whispered to the robin. She spoke in a soft, quiet voice and old Ben looked at her in surprise. ‘You said that really nicely!’ he said. ‘You sound like said you were going to die!’ he whispered. “Well, you can see that's not true,’ said Colin. ‘Now, get down from the wall and come here. I want to talk to you. You've got to help us keep the garden a secret’ “Yes, sir’ said old Ben, as he dried his eyes. That was the first of many beautiful afternoons in the secret garden. 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It looked dark Ton unfriendly from the outside. Inside Mary looked around the big shadowy hall, and felt very small and Lost. They went straight upstairs. Mary was shown to a room where there was a warm fire and food on the table. ‘This is your room,’ said Mrs Medlock. ‘Go to bed when you've had some supper. And remember, you must stay in your room! Mr Craven doesn’t want you to wander all over the house!’ When Mary woke up the next morning, she saw a young servant-girl cleaning the fireplace. The room seemed dark and rather strange, with pictures of dogs and horses and ladies on the walls. It was not a child's room at all. From the window she could not see any trees or houses, only wild Land which Looked like a kind of purple sea. ‘Who are you?" she asked the servant coldly. ‘Martha, miss,’ answered the girl with a smile. ‘And what's that outside?’ Mary continued. ‘That’s the moor,’ smiled Martha. ‘Do you like it?” ‘No,’ replied Mary immediately. ‘I hate it! ‘That's because you don’t know it. You will like it. I love it. It's Lovely in spring and summer when there are flowers. It always smells so sweet. The air’s so fresh and the birds sing so beautifully. I never want to leave the moor! Mary was feeling very bad-tempered. ‘You're a strange servant,’ she said. ‘In India we don’t have conversations with servants. We tell them what to do, and that's that ‘Martha did not seem to mind Mary's crossness. “Tknow I talk too much!’ she Laughed. ‘Are you going to be my servant?’ asked Mary. ‘What is happening to me?’ he whispered. ‘I feel different —1 almost feel I'm alive again!” ‘At that moment, hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire, Colin was seeing the secret garden for the first time, and saying, ‘T’m going to live for ever and ever and ever!” But Mr Craven did not know this. That night, in his hotel room, he slept better than usual. ‘As the weeks passed, he even began to thinka little about his home and his son. One evening in late summer, as he was sitting quietly beside a lake, he felt the strange calmness again. He fell asleep and had a dream that seemed very real. He heard a voice calling him. It was sweet and clear and happy, the voice of his young wife. ‘archiel Archie! Archie!’ ‘My dear!” He jumped up. ‘Where are you?’ ‘In the garden’ called the beautiful voice. And then the dream ended. 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Together they travelled north by train, Mrs Medlock was a Large woman with a very red face and bright black eyes. Mary did not like her, but that was not surprising because she did not usually like people. Mrs Medlock did not like Mary either. “What a disagreeable child!’ thought the housekeeper. ‘But perhaps I should talk to her’ ‘Tcan tell you a bit about your uncle, if you like,’ she said aloud. ‘He lives in a big old house, a long way from anywhere. There are nearly @ hundred rooms, but most of them are shut and locked. There's a big park round the house and all kinds of gardens. Well, what do you think of that?’ ‘Nothing,’ replied Mary. ‘It doesn't matter to me. Mrs Medlock laughed. ‘You're a hard little girl! Well, if you don't care, Mr Craven doesn't either. He never spends time on anyone. 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The two men jumped back in surprise. ‘My name is Mary Lennox,’ she said cross asleep when everyone was ill, and now I'm hungry. id who no one ever saw'!’ said the older man to the other. ‘They've all forgotten her! ‘Why was I forgotten?’ asked Mary angrily. ‘Why has nobody come to take care of me?” The younger man Looked at her very sadly. ‘Poor child! he said. ‘You see, there’s nobody left alive in the house. So nobody can come’ In this strange and sudden way Mary learnt that both her mother and her father had died. The few servants who had not died had run away in the night. No one had remembered little Miss Mary. She was all alone. Because she had never known her parents well, she did not miss them at all. She only thought of herself, as she had always done. I live?" she wondered. ‘I hope I'll stay with +t me do what I want.” At first she was taken to an English family who had known her parents. She hated their untidy house and noisy children, and preferred playing by herself in the garden. One day she was playing her favourite game, pretending to make a garden, when one of the children, Basil, offered to help. ‘Go away!’ cried Mary. ‘I don’t want your help!” For a moment Basil looked angry, and then he began to laugh. He danced round and round Mary and sang @ funny little song about Miss Mary and her stupid flowers. This made Mary very cross indeed. No one had ever Laughed at her so unkindly. ‘Twas Activities 1 Complete the sentences with the correct name. ‘Mrs Medlock = MrsSowerby = MrCraven Colin Ben Weatherstaff 1 Colin ___ learnt how to walk in the secret garden, 2 __ cried when he saw Colin standing up. 3 __gave Dickon fresh milk and bread to take to Colin and Mary. 4 had a dream about his dead wife. 5 wll told Mr Craven that Colin sometimes ate nothing, 2 Put these sentences in the correct order. 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