Mary Finds Colin and Their Secret Garden Bond

Meeting Colin In the middle of the night Mary wokeverb.醒来 up. Heavy rain had started falling again and the wind was blowing violentlyadv.猛烈地 roundverb.环绕…而行 the walls of the old house. Suddenlyadv.突然地 she heard crying again. This time she decidedverb.决定 to discoververb.发现 who it was. She left her room and in the darknessnoun.黑暗 followedverb.跟随 the crying sound. Roundadj.圆的 corners and through doors, up and down stairs to the other side of the big house. At last she found the right room.

She pushed the door open and went in. It was a big room with beautiful old furniture and pictures. In the large bed was a boy who looked tired and crossverb.穿过 with a thin white tearful face. He staredverb.以星状物装饰 at Mary. "Who are you?" he whisperedverb.低声地讲. "Are you a dream?" "No, I'm not. I'm Mary Lennox. Mr. Craven's my Uncle." "He's my father," said the boy. "I'm Colin Craven." "No one everadv.在任何时候 told me he had a son," said Mary, very surprisedadj.感到惊讶的.

"Well, no one everadv.在任何时候 told me you'd come to live here." "I'm ill, you see. I don't want people to see me and talk about me. If I live, I may have a crookedadj.弯曲的 back like my father, but I'll probablyadv.或许 die." "What a strangeadj.陌生的 house this is," said Mary. "So many secretsnoun.秘密. Does your father come and see you often?" "Not often. He doesn't like seeing me because it makes him remember my mother. She died when I was bornverb.承担.

So he almostadv.几乎 hatesverb.给……戴上帽子 me, I think." "Why do you say you're going to die?" asked Mary. "I've always been ill. I've nearlyadv.差不多 died severaladj.几个的 times and my back's never been strong. My doctor feels sure that I'm going to die. But he's my father's cousin and very poor. So he'd like me to die. Then he'd get all the money when my father dies. He gives me medicine and tells me to restverb.使休息." "We had a grandadj.宏伟的 doctor from London once who told me to go out in the fresh air and tryverb.尝试 to get welladj.健康的. But I hateverb.恨 fresh air.

And another thing, all the servantsnoun.仆人 have to do what I want because if I'm angry, I become ill. Mary thought she liked this boy although he seemedverb.似乎 so strangeadj.陌生的. He asked her lotsnoun.许多 of questions and she told him all about her life in India. "How old are you?" he asked suddenlyadv.突然地. "I'm ten and so are you," repliedverb.回答 Mary. "Forgetting to be careful. Because when you were bornverb.承担, the garden door was lockedverb.锁上 and the key was buriedverb.埋葬.

And I know that was ten years ago." Colin sat up in bed and looked very interested. "What door? Who lockedverb.锁上 it? Where's the key?" "I want to see it." "I'll make the servantsnoun.仆人 tell me where it is." "They'll take me there and you can come too." "Oh, please don't! Don't do that!" Cried Mary. Colin staredverb.以星状物装饰 at her. "Don't you want to see it?" "Yes, but if you make them open the door, it will never be a secretnoun.秘密 again. You see, if only we know about it.

If we can find the key, we can go and play there every day. We can help the garden come aliveadj.活着的 again. And no one will know about it except us." "I see," said Colin slowlyadv.缓慢地. "Yes, I'd like that. It'll be our secretnoun.秘密. I've never had a secretnoun.秘密 before." "And perhapsadv.也许," added Mary cleverly, "we can find a boy to push you in your wheelchairnoun.轮椅 if you can't walk. And we can go there together without any other people.

You'll feel betteradj.健康的 outside. I know I do." "I'd like that," he said dreamily. "I think I'd like fresh air in a secretadj.秘密的 garden." Then Mary told him about the moornoun.沼地 and Dickon and Ben Weatherstaff and the robinnoun.知更鸟. And Colin listened to it all with great interestnoun.兴趣. He began to smileverb.微笑 and look much happier. "I like having you here," he said. "You must come and see me every day. But I'm tired now. I'll sing you a song."

"My servantnoun.仆人 Kamala used to do that in India," said Mary. And very soon, Colin was asleep. The next afternoon, Mary visited Colin again, and he seemedverb.似乎 very pleasedadj.开心的 to see her. He had sent his nurse away and had told nobody about Mary's visit. Mary had not told anybody either. They read some of his books together and told each other stories. They were enjoying themselves and laughing loudlyadv.大声地 when suddenlyadv.突然地 the door opened. Dr Craven and Mrs Medlock came in.

They almostadv.几乎 fell over in surprise. "What's happening here?" asked Dr Craven. Colin sat up straight. To Mary, he looked just like an Indian princenoun.王子. "This is my cousin, Mary Lennox," he said calmly. "I like her. She must visit me often." "Oh, I'm sorry, sir," said poor Mrs Medlock to the doctor. "I don't know how she discoveredverb.发现 him. I told the servantsnoun.仆人 to keep it a secretnoun.秘密." "Don't be stupidadj.愚蠢的, Medlock," said the Indian princenoun.王子 coldly. "Nobody told her. She heard me crying and found me herself.