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The Secret Garden Chapter 1:?Contrary Mary? In the scorching heat of a garden in India, Mary Lennox stamped?her foot. “Fetch me a drink NOW!” she ordered. Instantly, servants rushed to?obey. Meanwhile, Mary began to make a pretend garden, sticking?flowers into the hot dry earth. “It looks all wrong,” she muttered. Glancing up, Mary saw a beautiful woman strolling past, surrounded by an admiring group?of army officers. “Mother!” cried Mary. She?rushed forward, but Mrs. Lennox brushed her daughter away, as she always did. It was Mary’s last glimpse of her?mother. Over the next few days a?terrible fever, cholera, swept through?her parents’ house. Her mother and father died, along with many of their servants. Mary, shut away in the nursery, never caught the cholera. But she was left all alone in the world. After that, Mary was passed?around like a package between her?parents’ friends, until a letter came from her uncle, Mr. Craven. Misselthwaite Manor, Yorkshire, England? Dear Mary, I have made arrangements for you to?come to England and live at Misselthwaite Manor. My housekeeper, Mrs. Medlock, will meet you in London and escort you here. I’m afraid I won’t see you for some time?as l have to travel to Europe on business. Yours sincerely, Archibald Craven? “No one cares what I want,” Mary thought, but she had nowhere else to go. Chapter 2:?The strange?house? Several weeks later, Mary was?sitting in a cold carriage, opposite?the stern-looking Mrs. Medlock. “What’s that whooshing noise?” Mary asked, as they drove across a bleak landscape. “It’s the wind howling across the moor,” Mrs. Medlock replied. “What’s a moor?” asked Mary. “Miles of empty land -- and the manor is right in the middle of it.” “I hate it already,” thought Mary. “How many servants will I?have?” she asked. Mrs. Medlock looked shocked, “I don’t know how it was in India,” she said, “but here you’ll?take care of yourself.” They arrived late at night. Mrs. Medlock marched Mary across a huge hall, up steep st