LinaKing1408
'We're alike, you and me,' old Ben Weatherstaff said to
Mary. 'We're not pretty to look at and we're both very
disagreeable.'
Poor Mary! Nobody wants her, nobody likes her. Her
parents have died, and she is sent home from India to live
in her uncle's house in Yorkshire. It is a big old house, with
nearly a hundred rooms, but most of them are shut and
locked. Mary is cross and bored, and lonely. There is
nothing to do all day, and no one to talk to, except old Ben
Weatherstaff, the gardener.
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. It sounds like a child crying...