Calico Classics Illustrated: Secret Garden

Calico Classics Illustrated: Secret Garden — page 3
wore such lovely clothes and seemed always to be laughing or smiling Now her eyes were large and scared Is it so very bad she asked Oh is it Awfully the young man said and Mary heard his voice tremble You ought to have gone to the hills two weeks ago Mary’s mother wrung her hands I only stayed to go to a silly dinner party she cried What a fool I was While Mary puzzled over what her mother meant wailing rang out from the servants quarters Mary’s mother clutched the young offi cer’s arm Mary stood up shivering as the wailing grew wilder and wilder What is it her mother cried Someone has died the young offi cer said You didn’t say the sickness had broken out here I didn’t know Mrs Lennox gasped She turned and ran into the house with the young offi cer at her heels 6