While the secret garden, Mary and Colin are coming alive; Mr. Craven is wandering in beautiful, faraway places. For ten years he kept his mind filled with sorrow, lacking the courage to push it away. Then one morning, sitting by a stream, Archibald Craven feels his mind and body grow quiet. He does not know for how long he sits, but he is overcome with the almost-forgotten sensation of being alive. He will discover that this happens at the same moment Colin cries out that he will live forever and ever. As summer turns to autumn, Mr. Craven is sleeping better and growing stronger. He hears his wife calling to him in a strangely vivid dream, and when he asks where she is, she replies that she is in the.....
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