The secret garden

238 THE SECRET GARDENlive to get into it?" and he clutched her handsand dragged her toward him.u 'Of course you'll see it !snapped Mary indignantly." Of course you'll live to get into itlDon't be silly!"And she was so un-hysterical and natural andchildish that she brought him to his senses andhe began to laugh at himself and a few minutesafterward she was sitting on her stool again tellinghim not what she imagined the secret garden tobe like but what it really was, and Colin's achesand tiredness were forgotten and he was listeningenraptured." It is just what you thought it would be," hesaid at last.seen it.first."Mary" It sounds just as ifyou had reallyYou know I said that when you told mehesitated about two minutes and thenboldly spoke the truth." I had seen it and I had been in," she said." I found the key and got in weeks ago. But Idaren't tell youI daren't because I was soafraid I couldn't trust you for sure!"