About this story
You play Mary, sent to a Yorkshire manor with a hundred rooms she is not to enter and an uncle who will not look at her. Twenty chapters of a robin, a buried key and ten years of ivy — and a crying through the corridors at night that the servants insist is only the wind.
Who you’ll meet
Colin Craven and Dickon Sowerby — the reader is Mary Lennox.
How it opens
A furnace-hot morning began without the nursery customs that ruled every day.
House ServantThe Ayah cannot come, Missie Sahib; no one can fetch her now.
Beyond the shutters, hurried feet crossed the compound and did not return.
Send her here when she is able.
House ServantI cannot promise it; the servants' quarter is full of sickness.
Choose
Tell me what has happened to her.
Then bring someone who will answer me.