The secret garden — Chapter Thirteen Colin

　　"What kind of a garden is it?" asked Colin.

　　"I don"t know! No one has seen it for ten years," said Mary slowly.

　　She hadn"t wanted to talk about the garden, but she couldn"t help it. Colin was too much like herself -- all alone, with nothing to do. He asked many questions. Where was it? Had Mary ever looked for the door? Hadn"t she asked the gardeners?

　　"They won"t talk about it," said Mary. "I think they"ve been told not to answer questions."

　　"I would make them," said Colin.

　　Mary began to feel really frightened. What had she done? If Colin could make people talk about the garden, who knew what would happen!

　　"Everyone has to do what I say. If I live, this house and everyone in it will belong to me," said Colin calmly. "I can make them tell me anything."

　　Mary looked at the boy. She didn"t realize that she and Colin had been raised in a similar way. They were very alike. To Mary, it seemed that Colin thought the whole world belonged to him!

　　"Do you really think you"ll die?" she asked him. She wanted to make him forget the garden.

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