The Secret Garden (1949)

Margaret O'Brien: Mary Lennox

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• Martha : My brother Dickon will be coming up to see thee.

  Mary Lennox : Your brother?

  Martha : Aye, thou'll like Dickon. What a one he is for growing things and the animals. Half lives on it, he does, almost like an animal himself.

• Dickon : And Ben said he loved her, and I said, what of that? Is loving someone a reason to kill? And Ben said, how old are thee?

  Colin Craven : My father must've loved my mother very much.

  Mary Lennox : I suppose we're not old enough. There must be an awful lot we don't know. I don't want to grow up.

• Dickon : I've watched thee go about the garden. There's no way in.

  Mary Lennox : In where?

  Dickon : The secret garden. He locked the gate long years ago.

  Mary Lennox : Who locked the gate?

  Dickon : The master. Lord Craven, thy uncle.

  Mary Lennox : What do you know about it?

  Dickon : I know what's said. He locked the gate and buried the key, and nary's a soul been in there since.

  Mary Lennox : I don't believe you. Do you know why I don't believe you? Because there isn't any gate. I've looked.

  Dickon : Eh, so've I.

• Mary Lennox : What were you doing watching me?

  Dickon : I came to play with thee. My mother thought thou might be lonely.

  Mary Lennox : Well, I'm not, and I don't play with any servant's brother. I never heard of anything so ridiculous. Thou can just go home.

  [Dickon laughs] 

  Mary Lennox : I mean, you can just go home.

• Mary Lennox : What's that?

  Dickon : A fox cub. His name's Captain.

  Mary Lennox : Dickon, are you still angry with me?

  Dickon : When was I ever angry with thee?

  Mary Lennox : Oh, good. Dickon, I've got so many secrets I'm just dying.

  Dickon : Thou seems most healthy.

  Mary Lennox : Dickon, I need you. All you have to do is listen. What good is a secret if there's no one to tell it to?

• Mary Lennox : I'll play with you some other time. I have to meet Dickon.

  Colin Craven : Who's Dickon?

  Mary Lennox : A boy I know.

  Colin Craven : I don't like him!

  Mary Lennox : You don't like anything.

  Colin Craven : Yes, I do. I want you to stay here and play with me.

• Colin Craven : You don't even care how I won't live to grow up.

  Mary Lennox : Stop it. You'll live as long as I will. You just say that to make people feel sorry for you and do what you say.

  Colin Craven : Don't you dare say that! Don't you dare say how I won't die!

  Mary Lennox : Why, you're proud of it. It makes you feel important.

• Mary Lennox : Wait a minute. Aren't you going to dress me?

  Martha : What?

  Mary Lennox : Well, in India, it's the custom.

  Martha : Thou cannot dress thyself?

  Mary Lennox : Of course I can. It's just -

  [Martha laughs] 

• Mary Lennox : Martha, I heard someone crying last night, as I was going to bed. I'm sure I heard someone crying.

  Martha : Aye, it was the scullery maid. It was last night. She had a toothache. What a fearful row!

  Mary Lennox : Mrs. Medlock said it was the wind.

  Martha : Oh, she did?

• Mary Lennox : Wait a minute. Aren't you going to dress me?

  Martha : What?

  Mary Lennox : Well, in India, it's the custom.

  Martha : Thou cannot dress thyself?

  Mary Lennox : Of course I can. It's just--

  [Martha laughs]