The secret garden

136 THE SECRET GARDEN"There's lilies o' th' valley here already; Isaw 'em. They'll have growed too close an' we'llhave to separate 'em, but there's plenty. Th'other ones takes two years to bloom from seed,but I can bring you some bits o' plants from ourcottage garden. Why does tha' want 'em?'Then Mary told him about Basil and his brothersand sisters in India and of how she had hatedthem and of their calling her ' Mistress MaryQuite Contrary.""They used to dance round and sing at me.They sang*Mistress Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow?With silver bells, and cockle shells,And marigolds all in a row.'1 just remembered it and it made me wonder ifthere were really flowers like silver bells."She frowned a little and gave her trowel arather spiteful dig into the earth.'I wasn't as contrary as they were."But Dickon laughed." 'Eh 1 he said, and as he crumbled the richblack soil she saw he w r as sniffing up the scent of'there doesn't seem to be no need for noit,one to be contrary when there's flowers an' suchlike, an' such lots o j friendly wild things runnin'