8. Week. Reading Book

CHAPTER X

Dickon

1. Mary called to the garden "The secret Garden" because she liked the feeling when she was inside and the beautiful old walls hidden her and no one knew where she was.

2. During that week, she become more intimate with Ben Weatherstaff, but she was afraid that he would pick up his tools and go away if he saw her coming, so she always walked towards him and he was flattered by her evident desire for his elderly company. 

3. Mary was more civil than she had been. She spoke with Ben and He very seldom talked much and sometimes did not even answer Mary’s question except by a grunt, but one morning he said more than usual. The Robin was with them. 

4. Ben Weatherstaff gave advice to Mary about the gardens until Ben was got angry with her because he had ever talked a lot and Mary had done a lot of questions. Mary liked Ben in spite of his crossness. 

5. Mary was skipping in the garden and found a boy that was sitting under a tree, playing on a rough wooden pipe and surrounded a brown squirrel, a cock pheasant and two rabbits. 
   

6. Dickon was friendly her and did not speak to her as if they had never seen each other before as he knew her quite well. He had come to give her garden tools to Mary and he showed her the tools and seeds. The robin also was here. 

7. Dickon asked Mary about where was the garden, and she did not know what to answer and she asked Dickon about if he could keep a secret because she had one and Dickon answered “I can keep secrets”. 

8. Mary said him all about the garden, that had stolen a garden because nobody wanted it and nobody cared for it and nobody had ever gone into it for long time. 

9. Dickon asked Mary “Where is the garden?” and Mary answered “Come with me and I’ll show you” and she led him round the laurel path and to the walk where the ivy grew and Dickon followed her. 

10. He was amazed while Mary walked to wall where the ivy grew in it, and there was a door under ivy and Mary pushed it slowly and opened it and they passed in together and she said “It’s a secret garden, and I’m the only one in the world who wants it to be alive” and Dickon looked round and round it and seemed him a queer, pretty place, “It’s like as if a body was in a dream” he said.