# The Secret Garden — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

- [There Is No One Left](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/i-there-is-no-one-left.md): Mary Lennox, a sickly and disagreeable child born in India to neglectful parents, is orphaned by a cholera outbreak. After being forgotten in the nursery during the chaos, she is discovered alone and learns that both her
- [Mistress Mary Quite Contrary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/ii-mistress-mary-quite-contrary.md): Mary Lennox, having survived the cholera outbreak that killed her parents, is sent to England to live with her uncle, Mr. Archibald Craven. During her journey, she learns about her uncle's reclusive nature and the myster
- [Across the Moor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/iii-across-the-moor.md): Mary Lennox travels by train and carriage across the Yorkshire moors to Misselthwaite Manor. She experiences the bleak, wild landscape and arrives at the vast, gloomy house where she is told she must stay in her rooms an
- [Martha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/iv-martha.md): Mary Lennox awakens at Misselthwaite Manor and meets Martha, the young housemaid. Martha's frank, good-natured manner contrasts sharply with the servile Indian servants Mary is accustomed to. Martha talks about the moor,
- [The Cry in the Corridor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/v-the-cry-in-the-corridor.md): Mary Lennox begins to adapt to life at Misselthwaite Manor, spending most of her time outdoors and experiencing improved health and appetite. She encounters the robin, who leads her to the wall of the secret garden, and 

> 21 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=the_secret_garden_se_585kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [VI: “There Was Some One Crying—There Was!”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/vi-there-was-some-one-crying-there-was.md)
- [VII: The Key of the Garden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/vii-the-key-of-the-garden.md)
- [The Robin Who Showed the Way](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/viii-the-robin-who-showed-the-way.md)
- [IX: The Strangest House Anyone Ever Lived In](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/ix-the-strangest-house-anyone-ever-lived-in.md)
- [The Nest of the Missel Thrush](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xi-the-nest-of-the-missel-thrush.md)
- [XII: “Might I Have a Bit of Earth?”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xii-might-i-have-a-bit-of-earth.md)
- [I Am Colin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xiii-i-am-colin.md)
- [A Young Rajah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xiv-a-young-rajah.md)
- [Nest Building](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xv-nest-building.md)
- [XVI: “I Won’t!” Said Mary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xvi-i-won-t-said-mary.md)
- [XVII: A Tantrum](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xvii-a-tantrum.md)
- [Tha' Munnot Waste No Time](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xviii-tha-munnot-waste-no-time.md)
- [XIX: “It Has Come!”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xix-it-has-come.md)
- [XX: “I Shall Live Forever—and Ever—and Ever!”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xx-i-shall-live-forever-and-ever-and-ever.md)
- [Ben Weatherstaff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xxi-ben-weatherstaff.md)
- [When the Sun Went Down](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xxii-when-the-sun-went-down.md)
- [Magic](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xxiii-magic.md)
- [XXIV: “Let Them Laugh”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xxiv-let-them-laugh.md)
- [The Curtain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xxv-the-curtain.md)
- [XXVI: “It’s Mother!”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xxvi-it-s-mother.md)
- [In the Garden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/xxvii-in-the-garden.md)

HTML index: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters