The secret garden

8 THE SECRET GARDENWhat desolation!'she heard one voice say.That pretty, pretty woman! I suppose thechild, too. I heard there was a child, though noone ever saw her."Mary was standing in the middle of the nurserywhen they opened the door a few minutes later.She looked an ugly, cross little thing and wasfrowning because she was beginning to be hungryand feel disgracefully neglected. The first manwho came in was a large officer she had once seento her father. He looked tired andtalkingtroubled, but when he saw her he was so startledthat he almost jumped back.1'Barney! he cried out. "There is a childhere! A child alone! In a place like thislMercy on 'us, who is she !" I am Mary Lennox," the little girl said, draw-She thought the man wasing herself up stiffly.very rude to call her father's bungalow " A place'like this ! "I fell asleep when every one hadthe cholera and I have only just wakened up.Why does nobody come ? '1It is the child no one ever saw !the man, turning to his companions.actually been forgotten !'1exclaimed" She has"Why was I forgotten? ' Mary said, stampingher foot. " Why does nobody come? "The young man whose name was Barney looked