The secret garden — Chapter Five The strange cry

　　"Oh!" she cried. "Is it you? Is it you?" It seemed that he really understood her. The robin hopped along the wall and sang, as if he were talking to her. Mary began to laugh, and run along the wall next to the little bird. As she ran and laughed, she looked almost pretty. "I like you! I like you!" she cried. She tried to whistle and sing like the robin. She didn"t really know how to sing like a bird. But the robin didn"t seem to mind; he sang back to her.

　　Suddenly the robin flew up to a tree behind one of the walls. Mary realized that it was the same tree she had seen the day she met Ben Weatherstaff. It was the tree behind the mysterious wall.

　　"That tree is in the garden no one can enter," Mary said. "The robin lives in the garden without a door. I wish I could go inside and see it!"

　　For a moment, Mary watched the robin sitting in the tree. Then she ran all around the walls. She ran through the orchard gardens and felt along the walls, looking for a door. But she couldn"t find one.

　　"It really seems as if them is no door," said Mary out loud. "But there was a door ten years ago, because Martha said that Mr. Craven threw away the key."

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