More Secrets

There are other secret places in the huge Misselthwaite Manor. Mary has been strictly told not to enter the East Wing of the house, but keeps hearing strange cries coming from there at night and wants to investigate. One night Mary hears the sound again, loud and clear, and she finally makes her journey down the long dreary corridors of the East Wing.

She eventually reaches a room where she finds a boy lying in his bed whimpering. Mary discovers that he is her cousin, Colin Craven, the son of her uncle Archibald Craven. Colin asks Mary to visit him every day because he is too ill to go outside with her and Dickon. She agrees to do this but the two of them keep this a secret from Mrs Medlock and the rest of the servants.