The Secret Garden 1 - Classic Story(2)

of sight as much as possible. 
The servants always let Mary do whatever she wanted to keep her from crying and making her mother angry. By the time Mary was six years old, she was very selfish and stubborn. A young English governess came to teach her to read and write. But she disliked Mary so much that she stayed only three months. 
Other governesses came and went even faster. One very hot morning, when she was about ten, Mary awoke feeling grumpy. She was even grumpier when she saw that the woman standing by her bed was not her usual nanny. "Why are you here?" she said to the strange

woman. "I will not let you stay. Send my nanny to me."
The woman looked frightened. "She cannot come." Mary flew into a rage and beat and kicked the servant. But the frightened woman would only repeat, "The nanny cannot come."
"There is a mystery in the air this morning," said Mary to herself after the servant went
away. As she walked about the house, she noticed that some of the servants were missing. The ones that she did see looked frightened. She went out into the garden and began to