The Secret Garden 2- Classic Story(2)

or two, nobody would play with her. One day Mary was playing by herself under
a tree. She was pretending to make a garden, just as she had been doing the day cholera
broke out. One of the little boys, Basil, stood nearby watching her.
"You are going to be sent home at the end of the week," Basil said to her. "And we're
all glad about it." "I'm glad too," answered Mary. "Where is home?"
"You don't know where home is?" Basil said scornfully. "It's England of course. You are

going to live with your uncle, Mr. Archibald Craven."
Mary frowned. "I don't know anything about him."
"Of course you don't. You don't know anything," said Basil. "But I heard Father and Mother
talking about him. He lives in a big, old house called Misselthwaite Manor. No one goes
near him. He's a hunchback and he's horrid." "I don't believe you." Mary turned her back
and stuck her fingers in her ears because she didn't want to hear any more. But she