# Basil — The Secret Garden character guide

> Basil in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0000-i-there-is-no-one-left

## Who they are

A boy Mary played with briefly in India before her parents died.

## In the story

### [Mistress Mary Quite Contrary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_garden_se/chapters/ii-mistress-mary-quite-contrary)

Basil teases Mary by calling her 'Mistress Mary Quite Contrary' and informs her that she is being sent to her uncle, Mr. Archibald Craven, whom he describes as a hunchback.

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