'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 wonder where the key is...
And then there is a strange crying in the night, somewhere in the house. It sounds like a child crying.
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"The Secret Garden" - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Random" The Secret Garden" Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens...