Scene 3

Question 1

OPENING LINES SCENE 3

Answer 1

Lennox: I don’t need them, any of them. I’ll show them who’s thick. All these years and they’ve never found it. But I will.

Question 2

Beth: Hey!
Lennox jumps
Beth: What do you think you’re doing?

Answer 2

Lennox: Nothing.

Question 3

Beth: Because it looked like you were kicking my pots.

Answer 3

Lennox: Wasn’t.

Question 4

Beth: Well, it looked like it. This is my garden and my pots and plants and if I catch you kicking them again, you’ll be in trouble.

Answer 4

Lennox: It’s not much of a garden, though, is it? There’s no flowers. And the trees are dead. And it’s cold.

Question 5

Beth: The trees are dead are they? Then what are those tiny buds on the branches?

Answer 5

Lennox: Where?

Question 6

Beth: There.

Beth pulls some seeds out of a pocket. Lennox comes closer to look.

Answer 6

Lennox: What are they?

Question 7

Beth: Carrots

Answer 7

Lennox: They’re not carrots.

Question 8

Beth: They’re not carrots… yet. But they will be. And these [Beth pulls out more packets of seeds, laying them on the ground] will be beetroots, and lettuce and broad beans.

Answer 8

Lennox: Why don’t you just buy them? Or don’t you have supermarkets here?

Question 9

Beth: Buy them? You don’t know what you’re missing. Nothing tastes as good as when you’ve grown it yourself.
Beth begins to carefully plant the seeds into the soil of one of the pots.
Lennox is looking around

Answer 9

Lennox: You spend a lot of time out here?

Question 10

Beth: Every day

Answer 10

Lennox: So you really know it.

Question 11

Beth: Uh-huh

Answer 11

Lennox: Which is your favourite bit?

Question 12

Beth: (suspiciously) Hard to say. Why all the questions?

Answer 12

Lennox: I’m just, you know, taking an interest. You really like the garden, don’t you?

Question 13

Beth: [Pointedly] I like the peace and quiet

Answer 13

Lennox: How long you been coming here?

Question 14

Beth: It feels like forever. I can’t remember a time I didn’t have this place really. It was Mrs Craven’s idea.

Answer 14

Lennox: Mrs Craven? You knew her?

Question 15

Beth: Everyone knew her. She had a way of knowing what people needed and bringing the best out of them. She knew I needed the garden before I even knew what gardening was. And that was that. You’re not the only one/ who

Answer 15

Lennox: /If you knew her and you know this garden you must know where their secret garden was? Martha said/ no-one uses it

Question 16

Beth: /Leave it

Answer 16

Lennox: I wonder if /it’s

Question 17

Beth: /Mr Craven wouldn’t want you poking around. Just leave it be. I’m in this garden every day, rain or shine. You don’t think I’d know about it?

Answer 17

Lennox: A bird!

Question 18

Beth: A robin. Dylan’s robin.

Answer 18

Lennox: A pet?

Question 19

Beth: Are you going to make yourself useful or what? Take this. [hands Lennox a trowel. Lennox takes it] You need each of them pots filled with compost up to about here [Indicates a height in the pot]

Answer 19

Lennox: What’s in this? [the compost]

Question 20

Beth: Dead plants, kitchen scraps

Answer 20

Lennox: Like old food? [She wrinkles her nose]

Question 21

Beth: Exactly. Stuff that people would just throw out, turned into something that helps the garden grow. We collect it all and put it in the composter, that big thing there, you see? Dylan loves spinning that/ and

Answer 21

Lennox: /Little Miss goodie two shoes.

Question 22

Beth: You could take a leaf out of her book. Look at that (points)

Answer 22

Lennox: What?

Question 23

Beth: That’s her wildlife garden, that patch over there. Doesn’t look like much does it? But she’s made it a safe haven for all sorts of creatures.

Answer 23

Lennox: She spends lots of time out here?

Question 24

Martha: Well now, what have we here? Not a Lennox? Out in the wild? Are you lost?

Answer 24

Lennox: Very funny

Question 25

Martha: It’s good to see you/ outside playing.

Answer 25

Lennox: /Don’t say playing.

Question 26

Martha: Jinx! Ha!

Answer 26

Lennox: You’re obsessed!

Question 27

Beth: You’re not the only one who didn’t get on with school. I couldn’t learn inside, sat at a desk all day. Everything was too loud, too busy, the words jumping around everywhere or disappearing

Answer 27

Lennox: You get that too?

Question 28

Beth: It’s why I love the garden. It’s like an outside classroom all of my own, learning my way. I know every plant, shrub, flower. Better than any periodic table.

Answer 28

Lennox: I dunno about that. The outside bit. I’d rather be inside. In the warm.

Question 29

Martha: You know, lots of people, me included, think that nature is healing, a force for good.

Answer 29

Lennox: Right…

Question 30

Martha: And your soul. Turns your mood around. When there’s just you and nature there’s no need for anything else, to try to be anywhere else.

Answer 30

Lennox: What? Catching a cold cos it’s freezing, drowning in the rain, fighting off birds of prey/

Question 31

Martha: /Birds of prey?!

Answer 31

Lennox: Well, a robin.

Question 32

Martha: Ah, you met Mr Robin!

Answer 32

Lennox: Not you as well?

Question 33

We’ll follow you round while you show off with pride
And when we have secrets, to you we’ll confide

ROBIN TRILLS

Answer 33

Lennox: [In a whisper] He’s singing!

Question 34

Martha: Loud noises, sudden movement. People having a tantrum…

Answer 34

Lennox: Martha….?

Question 35

Martha: Yes Lennox

Answer 35

Lennox: Do you think…

Question 36

Beth: Spit it out.

Answer 36

Lennox: Can Dylan come over tomorrow? To… play?

Question 37

Martha: I’m sure she’d love that.

Answer 37

Lennox: [Speaks/sings] Your voice when you sing is a beauty to hear
The world seems much brighter, when you are near
Do you know about the secret garden? I bet you do. You know everything. I bet you can see it when you fly over, can’t you? Well, I’ve got a plan to find it too.

Question 38

ROBIN FLIES AWAY

Answer 38

Lennox: Hey come back! I was talking to you!