The secret garden

262 THE SECRET GARDENhe had spent a good deal of time lookingat wonderfulbooks and pictures." That morning when you ran in and said ' It'scome 1 It's come !'you made me feel quite queer.It sounded as if things were coming with a greatprocession and big bursts and wafts of music.I've a picture like it in one of my books crowdsof lovely people and children with garlands andbranches with blossoms on them, every one laughingand dancing and crowding and playing onpipes. That was why I said, 'Perhaps we shall'hear golden trumpets and told you to throw openthe window.""How funny!" said Mary. "That's reallyjust what it feels like. And if all the flowers andleaves and green things and birds and wild creaturesdanced past at once, what a crowd it wouldbe I I'm sure they'd dance and sing nd flute andthat would be the wafts of music."They both laughed but it was not because theidea was laughable but because they both so likedit.A little later the nurse made Colin ready.noticed that instead of lying like a logclothes were put on he sat upShewhile hisand made someefforts to help himself, and he talked and laughedwith Maryall the time." This is one of his good days, sir," she said