3. Week. Reading Book

CHAPTER V

The Cry In The Corridor

1. Every day was exactly like the others. Mary ate her breakfast in the nursery which had nothing amusing in it.

2. She realized that if she did not go out she would have to stay in and do nothing and so she went out. She began to walk quickly or even run along the paths.

3. She walked round and round the gardens and wandered about the paths in the park. Sometimes she looked for Ben and she saw him at work always he was too busy.

4. Mary found to the bird, Ben's robin and she ran after him. She cried out "I like you! I like you!. She actually looked almost pretty for a moment.

5. Mary run after robin until an orchard which had no door and Mary said "It is the garden, I am sure it is", She walked round and only found that there was no door in it, and then she walked to the other end, looking again, but there was no door.

6. Mary thought she would like to know "Why did Mr. Craven hates the garden" and she asked to Martha, but Martha did not want to speak about it because this was Mr. Caven's orders.

7. But Martha talked about it. She said:
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It was Mrs. Craven's garden that she had made when first they were married.

8. Mr. and Mrs. Craven used the garden to go in and shut the door and stay there hours and hours reading and talking.

9. But one day when Mrs. Craven was sitting in a branch in the garden, the branch broke and she fell on the ground was hurt so bad that next day, she died.

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10. And at that very moment one door must have been opened somewhere downstairs and a crying sound was swept down the far corridor so that it was to be heard more plainly than ever. Martha said that was the wind or was little Betty Butterworth, she had the toothache all day. Mary said that any one is crying, she did not believe that Martha was speaking the truth...