PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. STORY AND PLAY SCENES ARRANGED FROM "THE CHORUS. Little Mary Lenox, a disagreeable spoiled sickly child, had lived her ten years of life in the care of servants in India, where her father held a position under the English government. In the epidemic of cholera that swept through that part of the world, her parents died, and Mary was sent to an uncle, a morbid hunchback, who lived in a great roomy house with many locked rooms, amidst the Scotch moors. Here she meets Mrs. Medlock, the housekeeper; Martha, the maid; Ben Weatherstaff, the gardener; and his friend, the Robin. She hears of a "Secret Garden." FIRST SCENE [MARY's bedroom, the first morning in her uncle's MARY. [Sitting up in bed.] What is that? [Pointing out of the window at the moor.] MARTHA. [Smiling goodnaturedly.] That's the moor. Does tha' like it? *From "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Permission given by Mrs. Burnett and by Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers. 3 |