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When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too.
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But then Mary learns about the secret garden. The door is locked and hidden, and the key is lost. No one has been inside the secret garden for ten years - except the robin, who flies over the wall. Mary watches the robin, and wonders where the key is... And then there is that strange crying in the night, somewhere in the house.
d. There are no living plants in the secret garden. e. Mary does not know anything about gardening. f. Mary writes a letter to Dickon. g. Mrs Medlock gives Mary pocket money. 2. Mary wants to find a way into the garden, because— a. she wants to have a secret place of her own. b. it has been shut up for ten years. c. the robin lives in there. 3.
4 THE SECRET GARDEN and Mary said they were “full of lace.” They looked fuller of lace than ever this morning, but her eyes were not laughing at all. They were large and scared and lifted imploringly to the fair boy officer’s face. “Is it so very bad? Oh, is it?” Mary heard her say. “Awfully,” the young man answered in a ...
The reader thereby recognizes that there is nothing innately cruel about Mistress Mary: she is a victim of her own isolation. Mary develops real affection for her maidservant, Martha Sowerby, and for the robin redbreast that lives in the secret garden.
Martha, a housemaid, looks after Mary. When Mary explores the house she hears someone crying, but Mrs Medlock denies the fact and immediately takes Mary back to the nursery. Mary spends a lot of time outside. Martha tells her that Mrs Craven’s garden has been locked since she died, ten years ago.
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