Mary has been in Yorkshire for a month now. She is very absorbed by "The Secret Garden," as she now thinks of it, and has spent the week digging and weeding every day. Ben Weatherstaff enjoys her company, and observes that she is filling out. She asks him as many questions as he will answer, but she is very careful that he not know her secret. She skips away and toward a low, peculiar whistling that she wants to investigate. She catches her breath as she sees a boy sitting against a tree. A brown squirrel clings to the tree beside him, with a pheasant and two rabbits watching him nearby. Even before he introduces himself, Mary knows this is Dickon. He talks to her as if they were already friends, and.....
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