Question #28

This story takes place in two scenes and the main character (Mary) moves to live with her uncle and discovers the Secret Garden.

Mary was sent to Misslelhwaite Manor to live her uncle. When Mary saw her room she thought it was curious and gloomy as no one really lived there. The walls were covered with tapestry with a forest scene embroidered on it. There were fantastically dressed people under the trees and in the distance there was a glimpse of the turrets of a castle. There were hunters and horses and dogs and ladies. Out of a deep window Mary could see a great climbing stretch of land which seemed to have no trees on it and to look rather like an endless, dull, purplish sea. The endless, dull, purplish sea turned out to be a moor. Mary's housemaid (Martha) described the moor to Mary as she had never seen it before. It is not bare. It is covered with growing things that smell sweet. It is lovely in the spring  and summer when the flowers blossom. It smells of honey and there is a lot of fresh air, and the sky looks so high. And the bees make such a nice humming noise, like they are singing.

The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett, p.26-p.27.