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from The Secret Garden
She looked at the key quite a long time. She turned it over and over, and thought about it. As I have said before,
had been trained to ask permission or consult her elders about things. All she thought about the key was that if it was t
garden, and she could find out where the door was, she could perhaps open it and see what was inside the walls, and v
old rose-trees. It was because it had been shut up so long that she wanted to see it. It seemed as if it must be different
something strange must have happened to it during ten years. Besides that, if she liked it she could go into it every day
her, and she could make up some play of her own and play it quite alone, because nobody would ever know where she
door was still locked and the key buried in the earth. The thought of that pleased her very much.
Living as it were, all by herself in a house with a hundred mysteriously closed rooms and having nothing whate
had set her inactive brain to working and was actually awakening her imagination. There is no doubt that the fresh, sti
had a great deal to do with it. Just as it had given her an appetite, and fighting with the wind had stirred her blood, so
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How does the mysterious garden affect Mary?