The Secret Garden Page #5

and never comes

to see him.

Poor lad.

There's not

been much joy

in his life.

Have you told

him about your

secret garden?

No, but I'm going to,

Dickon.

It'll give him something

to think about

besides feeling sorry

for himself.

What time do you think it is?

Oh.

Oh, well, past 3:00.

I've been out all day

without stopping for lunch.

Someone may be looking

for me.

Bring your animals tomorrow.

If they don't want to play

on the moors again like today.

COLIN:

Where's Mary?

Where is she?

I want to see Mary.

Where is she? Mary!

Master Colin is causing

a terrible fuss

'cause you've not been

to see him all day.

I don't have to see him

if I don't want to.

Nurse Boggs is just back

from a holiday

and she's got things

to see to.

You'd be doing her

a kindness.

Where's Mary?

Where is she?!

I waited and waited.

Where were you all day?

With Dickon.

If you go to him

instead of coming to me

I'll have him banished.

Who do you think

you are-- the

Raja of Punjab?

If you don't come,

I'll have you dragged here.

You're mean and selfish.

You're the one

who's selfish!

All you think

about is yourself

and feeling sorry

for yourself.

You'd feel sorry

for yourself, too

if you had a lump

onyourback

and you were going

to die.

You say things

like that

because you want people

to feel sorry for you.

I was going to tell

you something special

but now I'm not.

I hate you!

Good. Now I don't

have any reason

to come see you,

and I won't!

Ooh.

I'm Master

Colin's nurse.

I feel sorry for you.

If he had a vixen of a sister

like you, he might get well.

I don't care

if he doesn't get well.

If we were in India,

I'd put a snake in his bed.

(wind howling)

(yelling in distance)

Master Colin's worked himself

up into a terrible state

and I can't calm him.

I'm afraid he's going

to do himself harm.

Get off me!

Go away! Go away!

(both screaming)

Stop it!

It would be a good thing

if everyone ran away

and left you here

to scream yourself to death!

That's better.

If you scream again,

I'll scream, too.

And I can scream

much louder

and much longer

than you can.

I only screamed

'cause I felt the lump

in my back growing bigger.

Can I feel the lump?

Certainly not.

I want her to.

Oh, let her, Mrs. Medlock.

Or there'll be

no end to this.

Turn over.

There's no lump.

Yes, there is.

You've just got

a knobby spine

and knobby ribs

like I have.

So if you ever talk

about lumps again,

I'm going to laugh.

I'm going to die.

Is he?

Well, a specialist

from London said

Master Colin would improve

if he act well

and got out into the air.

You tell her.

You've been frail and sickly

since you were born,

Master Colin.

That's all I know.

I've always hoped

you'd outgrow your ailments.

I still hope.

I'm worn out.

Can you manage without me now?

COLIN:

I want you

to go.

You, too.

Only Mary can stay.

Well, that's up to Miss Mary

to decide.

Will you stay with me, Mary?

Please?

Well, since you said please.

But if you scream again,

I'll smother you with a pillow.

And she would, too.

Thank God

Mr. Archibald is still away.

Or we'd be answerable

to him for this brouhaha.

Thank God, indeed.

I just as soon

be spared another

distressing scene.

You said you'd had something

wonderful to tell me.

Will you tell me now?

You don't deserve to

be told... but I will

if you swear not

to tell anyone else.

Nodding doesn't count.

All right, I swear.

There's a secret garden

and I have been in it.

A secret garden?

Yes.

The door was hidden

and it took me forever

to find it, but I did.

No one had taken care

of it for so long

that it became

a wild tangle.

Everything looked dead.

But Dickon said that

some of the roses

were still alive.

And when they bloom

there will be curtains

and fountains of roses.

The first time I saw it

it was like an evil

witch's garden.

Ugly and scary.

But Dickon and I have

worked and worked

and now it's beginning

to get beautiful.

Everything was gray.

But now...

it's like a green veil

hanging over the garden.

A robin made

its nest there.

In one of the trees.

I call him Beggar.

There are holy men in India

called dervishes

who whirl and whirl

until they go mad.

That's what Colin was like

last night.

It's being lonely

that makes him

act like does.

I was lonely in India

but I didn't have fits

like that.

That's not true.

If my governesses didn't do

what I want

I'd have terrible fits.

No wonder

they didn't like me.

I thought reading

makes your head ache.

I'm just looking

at the pictures.

I told Nurse to bring me

a book on flowers

and she brought this one

from the library

but I can't tell

what the names are.

Oh, flower books always

use the Latin names.

Do you know Latin?

No, but I know a poem

that was first written

in Latin.

"I do not love

thee, Dr. Fell.

"The reason why

I cannot tell.

"But this alone

I know full well.

I do not love

thee, Dr. Fell"

I like that.

Do you know any other poems?

Oh, there are lots

of poetry books

in your father's library.

Will you read some

of the poems to me?

I'll think about it.

You smell nice.

It's the wind from

the moors you smell.

Oh, it's springtime

and out of doors

smells so greatly.

I never heard you

talk that way before.

I've given thee a bit Yorkshire.

There's a Yorkshire lad.

Doesn't understand

Yorkshire talk.

Oh, it's a wonder there is not

a shame to thy face.

(laughs)

Sometimes Dickon forgets

and talks Yorkshire to me.

I like it.

I'd like to hear him

talk Yorkshire.

How can you if you

don't want anyone

to look at you?

I don't think I'd mind

if Dickon looked at me.

You mean that?!

Yes. Yes.

Well, wonders never cease.

MARY:

Colin, Dickon's here.

(sheep bleating)

(crow cawing)

I brought my creatures.

Speak gently,

and he'll take to you.

(bleating)

COLIN:

Your squirrel

looks sleepy.

I didn't know animals are

so friendly, Dickon.

(bleating)

(laughing)

(birds singing)

You hurt me!

Stop being

such a crybaby!

This is your

first time out

so it's to be

only for an hour.

It'll be for as long

as I want!

Don't stand there like a stick.

Push me.

I hope this isn't a mistake.

I'm all for it.

It's wrong for the boy

to be locked away

like he wasn't

fit to be seen.

John's right, Nurse.

Master Colin can't spend

his whole life

in a world

of his own making.

His making or

his father's?

Oh, it comes

to the same thing.

Well, one thing is sure.

Mary Quite Contrary isn't about

to take any guff

from Master Colin.

All clear?

Safe as churches.

I wasn't really yelling

at you, Dickon.

We talked it over

and decided

if we were nasty

no one would get suspicious.

I figured

that out myself.

Go faster, Dickon.

No. In case someone happens

to see us

we don't want them

to know

we're going

somewhere special.

(birds singing)

(bird singing)

(laughter)

This is a magic garden.

It will make me well

and I'll live forever and ever.

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