Chapter VIII a Tantrum

1. The sun was pouring in through the windows.

2. I am going to see the garden!

3. I couldn’t stay in bed! The world’s begun again this morning!

4. They were so busy in the garden that Mary didn’t go to see Colin all day.

5. If you send Dickon away, I’ll never come into this room again!

6. I think you are proud of it!

7. You didn’t feel the lump. There’s nothing wrong with you stupid back.

8. Do you think I will live long enough to grow up?

9. Have you found the way into the secret garden yet?

10. I think I may have found the way

1. early

2. to pour through

3. springtime

4. leaf-bud

5. awake

6. to snap

7. to come out

8. across

9. cub

10. to push up through

11. beak

12. to choke

13. mate

14. to wonder

15. to frown

16. to soften

17. to promise

18. to grow angry

1. Mary didn’t want to go to the secret garden on the first morning when the sky was blue again.

2. Mary had to call Martha to help her to get dressed.

3. Mary found Dickon with a fox cub and a crow in the garden.

4. The children saw the robin singing and jumping from tree to tree.

4. Mary told Dickon that she had found out about Colin.

4. The children didn’t want Colin to come to the secret garden.

4. When Mary returned home she learned that Colin was close to a tantrum.

4. Mary didn’t want to go and to see Colin because she was very tired.

4. Mary checked Colin’s back and found no lumps there.

4. Mary told Colin that she had found the door to the secret garden and could describe it.

1. leaf-bud

2. mate

3. awake

4. beak

5. cub

6. to choke

7. to grow angry

8. to come out

9. to frown

10. springtime

a part of the year when nature wakes up

a birds “nose”

a bear’s or a wolf’s child

an animal’s or a bird’s partner

to become angry

to appear

not sleeping

to make an expression moving eyebrows together

making voice sound unnatural because of emotions

a young tightly rolled up leaf