The Secret Garden Author:Frances H. Burnett Mary looked at it, not really knowing why the hole was there, and as she looked she saw something almost buried in the newly-turned soil. It was something like a ring of rusty iron or brass and when the robin flew up into a tree nearby she put out her hand and picked the ring up. It was more than a ring, however, it was an old key which looked a... more »s if it had been buried a long time.
Mistress Mary stood up and looked at it with an almost frightened face as it hung on her finger.
"Perhaps it has been buried for ten years," she said in a whisper. "Perhaps it si the key to the garden!"« less