KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Outside, Mary skips all around the gardens. She spots Ben Weatherstaff and hopes he will see her skipping. He does, and tells her “P’raps tha’ art a young ‘un, after all.” Later she sees the tame robin swinging on some ivy. She tells him he ought to show her where the door to the locked garden is.

Detailed explanation-2: -Indeed, without this friendly robin, Mary would not have found the key to the garden: He leads her to it at the end of Chapter 7 by pecking and scratching at a hole where the key is half-buried under dirt.

Detailed explanation-3: -Beneath the ivy is a door, which Mary unlocks with the key she unearthed the day before. She finds herself standing inside the secret garden.

Detailed explanation-4: -The robin is a representative of wise and gentle nature-part of Chapter XXV is told from his point of view, as though to prove that animals really do have minds of their own. It is he who first shows Mary the key to the secret garden, thereby suggesting that nature itself is colluding with her wish to get inside.