The secret garden

274 THE SECRET GARDENmothers do when they're took out o' th' world.They have to come back, tha' sees. Happen she'sbeen in the garden an' happenit was her set usto work, an' told us to bring him here."Mary had thought he meant something about,Magic. She was a great believer in (Magic. Secretlyshe quite believed that Dickon workedMagic, of course good Magic, on everything nearhim and that was why people liked him so muchand wild creatures knew he was their friend.She wondered, indeed, if it were not possible thathis gift had brought the robin just at the rightmoment when Colin asked that dangerous question.She felt that his Magic was working all theafternoon and making Colin look like an entirelydifferent boy. It did not seem possible that hecreature who had screamed andcould be the crazybeaten and bitten his pillow. Even his ivorywhiteness seemed to change. The faint glow ofcolor which had shown on hisface and neck andhands when he first got inside the garden reallynever quite died away. He looked as if he weremade of flesh instead of ivory or wax.They saw the robin carry food to his mate twoor three times, and it was so suggestive of afternoontea that Colin felt they must have some." Go and make one of the men servants bringsome in a basket to the rhododendron walk," he