The Secret Garden 1 - Classic Story(5)

and when she looked down, she saw a little snake gliding along. "It sounds as if no one
is here but the snake and me." 
The next minute she heard footsteps on the porch and voices in the house. Mary jumped out of bed as a soldier came into her room.
"There is a child here!" he called to the other soldiers in the house. "A child alone!
In a place like this! Who is she?" "I am Mary Lennox," she said. "I fell asleep
when everyone had cholera, and I just woke up. Why was I forgotten? Why does no one come?"