"I was born in India." "It was hot...and strange and lonely in India." "I didn't like it." "Nobody but my servant my ayah, looked after me." "My parents didn't want me." "I was angry, but I never cried." "I didn't know how to cry." "They never thought about me." "If only I could've known..." "Earthquake!" ""Mistress Mary, quite contrary...."" "Numbers 38 and 39 George and Amy Brent." "Numbers 40 and 41  Timothy and Thomas Burke." "Here we are!" "Here we are!" "Oh, my boys, my boys." "Number 43, Mary Lennox." ""Mary, Mary, quite contrary" ""How does your garden grow?" ""With silver bells" ""And cockleshells" ""And pretty maids all in a row."" "Number 43 Mary Lennox." "Please, just step aside." "Number 44 Adam Snow." "Mary Lennox?" "ls that Mary Lennox?" "Number 43." "Yes, Mary Lennox." "I've come to claim her." "...for the Lord Archibald Craven her uncle and guardian." "And, my word, a plain piece of quince." "Her mother was a beauty." "She certainly didn't hand much of it down." "She might improve as she gets older." "Children change." "She'lI have to change quite a bit." "Come along." "That's for sure." "As if having a crooked back..." "Strange." "Oh, at last." "There's Misslethwaite." "You probably haven't gotten much rest." "There's your breakfast." "I'm still in my nightgown." "Who'll dress me?" "You can't dress yourself?" "Of course not." "My ayah dressed me." "Nonsense." "As old as you are?" "We've far too much work already." "So you'lI have to look after yourself." "The house seemed dead like a spell had been cast upon it." "This must have been my aunt's." "The dressing tables were the same." "Mother." "I heard someone crying." "Dogs." "No, someone!" "A person crying." "You heard nothing of the sort." "Now..." "Good afternoon." "I brought you something to eat." "You haven't touched your porridge." "Didn't you want it?" "Are you my servant?" "I'm Mrs. Medlock's servant." "She's Lord Craven's." "You are strange." "Hey, I know that." "I'd never be let out of the kitchens and certainly not upstairs." "Stop it!" "What're you doing?" "What would you like to wear?" "Black black or black?" "Are you blind?" "They're all black." "And I won't be laughed at, servant." "My name's Martha." "I won't tickle you." "I promise." "What do they wear in India?" "What?" "You thought I was a what?" "You...." "You...." "You daughter of a pig !" "I've never seen a native." "I was pleased to think I was." "Please." "Don't be vexed." "I don't know anything about anything like you said." "I'm sorry, miss." "I'm too common and I talk too much." "I beg your pardon, miss." "My uncle?" "But he does." "When will I see him?" "Tomorrow?" "No." "He'll be gone tomorrow." "...Lord Craven wouldn't see people." "There's nobody to ease his sorrow." "Poor man." "They say he's cursed." "But I've got no one to play with." "No one to play with?" "Let me out of here." "Dickon, my brother..." "Who?" "Dickon me younger brother." "Pull it down!" "What do you think you're doing?" "There you are!" "I wondered where you'd gone." "Your scarf, miss." "There." "Thou is ready to go out now." "I can't see." "To get to the gardens you must go through there then around the outside of the house." "Run along now." "Have fun." "What's beyond there?" "Another garden?" "Where's the door?" "You there!" "There isn't one." "There has to be a door somewhere." "Why?" "Why?" "Who died?" "My aunt died." "It was her garden, wasn't it?" "Look at me." "Answer me, you!" "Of course orders couldn't keep him out." "If you know the way show me." "Who's there?" "He hates it." "I've got a present for you." "Mother sent it over to you." "What's it for?" "They've not got skipping ropes?" "Come here." "Watch." "Now, you try." "You are strange." "If you'd been any other child..." "What's that?" "Go on now, Miss Mary." "Go, go." "I've never skipped before." "Well, he's impressed." "Cheeky little beggar." "Look at him." "What about him?" "I can't think why, but he's decided to make friends with thee." "He has?" "I've never had any friends." "That I believe." "Show me." "Please show me the way in." "Thank you, robin." "I need more...." "Martha !" "I need more plasters!" "More towels!" "Tastes nice today." "Listen." "Hear that?" "It's the wind." "...and crying." "Poor little Betty Butterworth the scullery maid." "She's had a toothache all morning." "Come on, Martha, please!" "Soot." "He doesn't know thee." "You frightened him." "I frightened him?" "Come." "He won't hurt you." "He'll bite me." "He won't." "But he's filthy and dirty." "No, he's soft." "You'll like it." "There." "I did it." "Like that, Miss Mary." "The animals tell me all their secrets." "He wouldn't tell you my secret." "About what, Miss Mary?" "A garden." "I've stolen a garden." "Maybe it's dead, anyhow." "I don't know." "I'd know." "Promise you won't tell?" "Promise." "Nobody?" "Not a soul." "It's a secret garden." "Secrets are safe with me." "Wait here." "This garden's not dead." "It's as alive as you or me." "See?" "This part's wick." "See the green?" "Wick?" "What's wick?" "Alive." "Full of life." "...you'll be sick of them." "Look!" "They say that's how she died." "How?" "From falling off it." "...I dreamed about my mother." "She was here in the garden and the garden was a jungle." "Come to me." "Are you a ghost?" "Are you?" "Who are you?" "What are you doing here?" "I live here." "Who are you?" "Your father?" "He's my uncle." "Nobody told me he had a son." "Come here." "What's your name?" "I'm Mary Lennox." "What's your name?" "I'm Colin Craven." "Our mother's were sisters." "Twins." "Twins?" "Nobody told me she had a twin." "What?" "My pillows." "My covers got twisted." "I don't know what to do about it." "Why not?" "She'd be afraid you'd upset me and make me more ill." "Do I?" "I'll go." "Stop!" "Stay here!" "How old are you?" "Ten." "We're the same age." "What's your mother like?" "She's dead." "Mine's dead, too." "Do you see that cord?" "Pull it." "That's my mother." "My father never wants to see me because I don't look anything like her." "But you, you look like her." "Why do you keep a curtain over her?" "She smiles too much." "Smiles too much?" "How can anybody smile too much?" "Sometimes I hate her." "Garden?" "What garden?" "Oh, just a garden." "There are so many of them here." "Are there?" "Of course." "Don't you go outside?" "Never." "What's wrong with you?" "I'm going to die." "From what?" "Everything." "I've spent my whole life in this bed." "You don't know how to walk?" "You are real?" "My dreams are so real sometimes." "Shall I pinch you to prove it?" "See?" "A lily." "It's an Empress-of-lndia lily." "Empress of India?" "These bulbs are lilies, too." "It's just like the rhyme:" ""Mistress Mary, quite contrary" ""How does your garden grow?" ""With silver bells and cockleshells" ""And pretty maids all in a row."" "I wasn't as contrary as they were." "I met my cousin last night." "You've seen Colin?" "Did you know about him?" "Everybody knows about him." "But hardly anybody's seen him." "She fell off the swing." "He was born too soon." "He's not at all like you." "Whiter than these little hairs." "Those are the roots." "Set it in there." "Let it grow this way, Miss Mary." "How tiresome to be shut indoors." "It's too stuffy!" "At least we can open the windows." "No, get away from there!" "Don't touch them." "They're nailed shut." "My lungs can't take the spores." "Spores?" "They get stuck in your lungs." "Your hair?" "Hair is dead." "If hair is dead..." "Don't be stupid." "Then I'll die." "I hate how you talk about dying." "Everyone thinks I'll die." "Here." "Put this on." "But she's not here to see me." "Put it on." "It makes my face itch." "Put on the mask." "I'll talk to you any way I please." "Where are you going?" "Back outside to be with Dickon." "He knows everything about gardens." "Does he know about my mother's garden?" "Why not?" "...it wouldn't be a secret anymore." "I don't want it." "Now, don't be like that." "Your father returns today." "He won't want to see me." "Perhaps he will." "The machine." "Wake up, girl !" "Oh, I forgot my herbs." "I'll get them for you." "No, thank you." "Where's your mask?" "If Mrs. Medlock finds out...." "The world's coming to an end." "She won't let you come back." "Go!" "Just go!" "She'lI think I disobeyed her." "She'll fire me for sure." "Please!" "Go!" "Come along, Miss Mary." "Come along." "Miss Mary, Your Lordship." "Calm down." "Come here." "You needn't be afraid." "Come here." "My God!" "Your eyes!" "They're so much...." "I had no idea." "Wait a moment." "They never sent me your picture." "Please." "Let me stay." "I don't do any harm." "Harm?" "What harm could you do?" "There's nothing for a child here." "I don't need much." "All I need is...." "Could I...?" "Could I have a bit of earth?" "Bit of earth?" "To plant seeds in." "To make things grow." "Take your bit of earth." "Anywhere!" "Well...." "Go!" "Go!" "You can go." "Good-bye." "Good-bye." "I'll be away until the winter." "He said I can!" "I can have my bit of earth !" "Who said?" "Blue flowers, pink flowers purple flowers, yellow flowers..." "It's raining." "The rain will help our flowers grow." "When he was growing up..." "Really?" "Was he different from other people?" "Only on the inside." "Down his it could." "How?" "It's the idea of it." "It's so stupid." "I am not stupid!" "You can't leave!" "You wouldn't dare!" "Wouldn't I?" "Fine." "That's just fine." "Then I won't even look at you." "I'll stare at the floor." "Not even about seeing your father." "Yes, you will." "Tell me." "He didn't come to see me." "I'll die 'cause he doesn't like me." "He likes me." "But he's my father!" "Maybe if you weren't so rude." "I'm not rude!" "Yes, you are!" "You're so sour!" "How can I?" "It's raining out." "I'm not sour." "Will he ever see Colin?" "But Colin wants to see him." "Sometimes, he stays longer." "Longer than a week?" "Ten years ago..." "My poor little boy." "My poor uncle fled from it as if he were escaping the spring." "Medlock's gone!" "It's working." "It's working any minute now." "Hold, Dickon!" "Hold!" "It's working !" "Come down!" "We need a hand." "It's beautiful, Colin." "Do you feel it?" "Do you?" "I'm coming !" "Jesus." "Come help me, please." "Put him on the bed." "Calm down!" "Calm down, please!" "Somebody's got to make him stop." "Stop it, you!" "Stop!" "I hate you!" "Everybody hates you!" "I'm not as selfish as you are." "Because I'm always ill." "Nobody ilI can scream like that." "I'm going to die!" "What do you know about dying?" "It's Master Colin!" "It's Master Colin!" "Come quickly, John." "Come quickly." "It's because you're so skinny." "What in God's name?" "I won't hurt him!" "She's my cousin!" "Give me a hand." "Hold his arms up." "Martha, stop that girl !" "He doesn't have a lump!" "You disobeyed me!" "But I didn't tell her." "What's going on?" "Beg your pardon?" "I'm ordering you to leave this room!" "Ordering me?" "Go!" "I shall." "But, I promise you...." "Maybe I'm not ill." "I don't see how." "You're just weak." "Do you think I could go outside?" "Spores and all?" "I don't know anything about spores." "If I went out..." "If we found the door we could go inside." "What is it?" "I didn't dare tell you." "What?" "I've been in the secret garden." "I found the key weeks ago." "Go on." "Tell me." "Then you go down some stone steps." "Every day, new flowers open." "It's like magic." "Baby animals are being born." "I'm going out in my chair." "If the fresh air agrees with me I may go out every day." "Not every day, surely, Master Colin." "What do they say in India when you want people to go?" "You say:" ""I have spoken." "All depart."" "I have spoken." "All depart." "But remember this is very important." "Step back." "You are to stay here, Medlock." "Oh, but Master Colin" "Stay here!" "Just take these stupid things off!" "What good are they now?" "Get inside." "Are these your animals?" "Yes." "It's safe." "Go fast, Dickon!" "Faster!" "Faster!" "Faster, Dickon!" "Faster!" "Faster!" "Faster!" "Here we go." "Go along, Honker." "I wish I could help." "Me?" "Walk?" "Do you think I could?" "You have legs like everybody else." "But I never thought I" "Close your eyes, Colin." "Am I there?" "Almost." "Now." "Yes." "I imagined this." "Really?" "Do you see that flower?" "I planted all those bulbs and seeds." "I'm going to come here tomorrow." "And the day after." "And the day after that." "See." "You must pull the weeds up to give the flowers room." "Get off." "It's only a worm." "It's not "ew."" "See?" "He likes them, too." "Who's that man?" "What are you doing in here?" "It was the robin who showed me the door." "Do you know who I am?" "Who you are?" "You're the little cripple." "If he's got a lump..." "I'm not a cripple!" "...it's the size of a pin." "Your back's not crooked?" "No!" "And you haven't crooked legs?" "Who said I had crooked legs?" "No one ever said that." "You can do it." "You can do it." "You can do it." "Look at me." "Just look, you." "Don't say a word about it to anyone." "Send for you to help us sometimes." "Your mother was so fond of this garden." "She'd never ask anybody else." "But I come anyway." "She gave her orders first." "You know how to keep a secret." "Come inside." "Be quick." "Oh, laddie." "Yes, sir." "Right away, sir." "I'll meet him at the door." "Are you making this magic?" "No." "You are." "I'm certain it is." "I could marry you." "What?" "But we're cousins!" "I don't care." "I want us always to be together." "We are together." "Come back." "See you tomorrow." "I'll be back tomorrow." "What's he doing?" "What does he want?" "He lost his mother." "He's hungry." "He's only a few days old." "He just learned how to walk." "You can hold him, if you like." "Be careful, Master Colin." "Where did he come from?" "Three days ago I was out on the moor." "I heard bleating under the bushes." "So, I started to look, and I looked..." "Off you go." "Go on." "Go on." "Give me your hand." "You can do it." "You can do it." "You can do it." "You can do it." "You did it!" "You can walk!" "I did it!" "I did it!" "I did it!" "I did it!" "Are you a ghost?" "It's me!" "Medlock might hear you." "How did you get here?" "I found the way by myself." "You climbed the stairs?" "This is how I want it to be with my father." "I want to surprise him." "Just like this." "I want him to see me before anyone else does." "I wish we knew how to find him." "Medlock must know." "We can steal the address from her." "I saw a desk in your father's room." "That's my mother." "I think that is my father." "That's me." "I think she's beautiful." "Attention!" "Over here." "Smile." "Sit on the swing, Dickon." "Look at each other." "Now, look at me." "Come on, Dickon!" "Stop all this." "I am well." "I do not believe you are well." "Your pulse is much too quick." "John, bring that ice." "Come on, Will." "You'll do no such thing." "Give it to me." "I've had enough." "...heaven knows what's happened to you." "You could be clotting." "I won't stand for it." "Not anymore." "I'm keeping you children apart." "He is a very ill little boy." "Come on." "It's safe." "Everybody's gone." "Ben's waiting at the gate." "Thank you." "We're making magic here." "And this is my first experiment." "Aye." ""Oh, great magic" ""Please come to me" ""Send me my father here" ""Set his spirit free" ""Oh, great magic" ""Please come to me" ""Send me my father here" ""Set his spirit free" ""Oh, great magic" ""Please come to me" ""Send me my father here" ""Set his spirit free" ""Oh, great magic" ""Please come to me" ""Send me my father here" ""Set his spirit free"" "Go!" "Where are you?" "In the garden!" "I'm in the garden!" "I'm in the garden!" "I'm in the garden with Colin!" "I must go." "I must go!" "lmmediately!" "I must go tonight." "Prepare my bill." "His Lordship's just arrived!" "His Lordship?" "Where?" "Where is he?" "Outside." "Get me out of this thing." "Will you get me out?" "Get me out of it!" "Oh, come on!" "Here I am." "Where's my son?" "Where's my son?" "He's here, my lord." "He must be here." "What's happened?" "It's that child, my lord." "She's created absolute havoc here." "I've tried to control her." "She must be sent away, my lord." "She'll kill Master Colin for sure." "Take me to her room." "You lock her in?" "I've had to, my lord." "That's how wild she is." "Mary?" "Your uncle's here." "I beg your pardon, my lord." "Perhaps they're in the garden." "The garden?" "How can they be?" "It's quite impossible." "I've done my best, sir." "I really have." "But with that child defying me" "Silence, Medlock!" "She's just a child." "I left you in charge." "I'll resign, sir." "I'll leave today." "Don't!" "Catch me!" "Come get me!" "Where are you?" "I can't believe it." "You're here." "The magic worked." "The garden." "Let me show you." "No one wants me!" "This is where the robin has his nest." "See the babies?" "They'll be flying soon." "This is where I walked first." "I was like a baby myself." "Why are you here by yourself?" "It wasn't wanted." "What wasn't wanted?" "The garden." "You're right." "I never wanted to see it again." "You never wanted to see Colin." "You brought us back to life, Mary." "Don't be afraid." "I won't shut it up again." "Believe me." "Thank you." "Should we call Colin?" "What's happening?" "Did you see them?" "Oh, look!" "Master Colin." "Master Colin." "He's walking." "The spell was broken." "Open and awake and alive." "If you look the right way..."