The Secret Garden Page #2

If you know the way...

...show me.

Who's there?

He hates it.

Why does Lord Craven hate her garden?

- We're not supposed to talk about it.

- Why not?

I've got a present for you.

Mother sent it over to you.

What's it for?

You mean, all they've got is

elephants and tigers in India?

They've not got skipping ropes?

Come here.

Watch.

Now, you try.

Thank you, Martha. Thank your mother.

You are strange.

If you'd been any other child...

...you'd have given me a kiss.

- Do you want me to kiss you?

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!

Did you see what I found, pretty robin?

You're getting on well enough

with that this morning.

Tastes nice today.

Listen.

Hear that?

It's the wind.

Sometimes it sounds like

someone's lost out in the moor...

...and crying.

Poor little Betty Butterworth...

...the scullery maid.

She's had a toothache all morning.

I need your help. Come on.

Get this child outside at once!

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.

I know you, too.

You're Martha's brother, Dickon.

The robin says he's been waiting for you.

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.

- And you'll know if it's alive?

- 'Course.

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.

There'll be so many roses

in there this summer...

...you'll be sick of them.

Look!

There's a picture of my mother

and my aunt sitting here.

They say that's how she died.

How?

From falling off it.

For the first time since coming from India...

... 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?

I'm master of this house,

while my father's away.

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.

- Why were you crying?

- I can't sleep.

Plump my pillows for me, Cousin Mary.

- What?

- My pillows.

My covers got twisted.

I don't know what to do about it.

- I'll get Martha, or Mrs. Medlock.

- No!

Why not?

Medlock wouldn't allow you in here.

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.

- She died when I was born.

- I thought she died in her garden.

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?

How did you know to pull the weeds?

It looked like it was strangling.

I don't even know what it is.

A lily. It's an Empress-of-India lily.

Empress of India?

These bulbs are lilies, too.

We'll plant them all around your lily.

She'll have her own ladies in waiting.

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."

On the boat coming here,

they used to sing that song at me.

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.

He said his mother died when he was born.

She fell off the swing.

He was born too soon.

He's not at all like you.

His cheeks are whiter than ice and marble.

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!

I'll faint if I don't get

some light and fresh air.

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?

The wind carries them. When you

breathe the air, you swallow them.

They get stuck in your lungs.

Before I got out into the wind,

even my hair was scrawny.

Your hair?

- Hair is dead.

- Lf hair is dead...

...then how come it keeps growing

even after you die?

Well, maybe not your hair!

By then you might be bald.

Don't be stupid.

I'll be dead before I'm old enough

to be bald.

I'll get a lump on my back like my father.

Then I'll die.

I hate how you talk about dying.

Everyone thinks I'll die.

If everyone thought that about me,

I wouldn't do it.

Here.

Put this on.

Everyone has to wear one.

Medlock's orders.

- But she's not here to see me.

- Put it on.

It makes my face itch.

I can't stand it!

I didn't give you any germs last night!

Put on the mask.

Stop talking to me as if you were a rajah

with jewels stuck all over you.

I'll talk to you any way I please.

Where are you going?

Back outside to be with Dickon.

He tames animals like the animal charmers

in India.

He knows everything about gardens.

Does he know about my mother's garden?

- What?

- You said my mother had a garden.

How would he know about it?

It's locked. No one's allowed in there.

- I'll make them unlock it.

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