Gator Preview Newsletter Spring 2014 | Page 22

  After   arriving   at   her   uncle’s   huge,   cold   and   lifeless   mansion,   Mary   breaks   down   to   compassionate   Nurse   Martha   about   all   that   has   happened   and   her   fear   of   what   lies   ahead   for  her.               In   the   meantime,   Uncle   Archibald   can   think   of   nothing   but   his   lovely,   departed   wife,   Lily,   whom   he   lost   way   too   soon.     As   the   music   swells   in   their   hearts,   Archibald   reconnects   with   Lily’s   soul   and   they   dance   around   the   lonely  mansion  once  more.                  Nurse   Martha,   Dickens,   and   Ben   lament   to   Mary   about   the   dilapidated   state   of     Lily’s  secret  garden  and  how  the  key  to  enter  it  has  never  and  probably  will  never   be   found.   They   also   try   to   impress   on   her   that   it   is   forbidden   territory   as   far   as   Uncle  Archibald  is  concerned.