Scene 8

Question 1

Cooper: I can’t believe we did it!
Dylan: This is actually it!

Answer 1

Lennox: The secret garden!

Question 2

Cooper: And it’s all

Answer 2

Together: Ours!

Question 3

Cooper: And, wow, those old nests, there must be loads of babies here in spring!

Answer 3

Lennox: Even more than in your nature garden, Dyl?

Question 4

Dylan: Pterodactyls and dodos and… and
Cooper: Griffins!

Answer 4

Lennox: They’re not/ real

Question 5

Dylan: /Yes! Definitely. DEFINITELY! Look at all these buds and shoots. It’s about to explode into colour. I can’t believe we found it!

Answer 5

Lennox: Look at that tree.

Question 6

Dylan: I bet elves live in there.

Answer 6

Lennox: Elves? How old are you, Dyl?

Question 7

Cooper: I bet they do too, go have a look!

Answer 7

Lennox: Come on, you come too.

Question 8

Cooper: No. Not yet. I just need a minute
Dylan: Have my coat.

Answer 8

Lennox: And mine! We can make you a nest.

Question 9

Cooper: What are you doing? Go! Scope it out. Tell me, everything!

Answer 9

Lennox: There’s so/ much

Question 10

Dylan: /Where do we/ start

Answer 10

Lennox: /There! Look at that!

Question 11

Cooper: I’m gunna need more than that!

Answer 11

Lennox: It’s… twisty, old

Question 12

Dylan: Like a tree from a faraway kingdom. And it’s got, there’s some ropes attached, to a piece of… wood?

Answer 12

Lennox: It looks like a swing

Question 13

Cooper: For Mum. I bet it was for my mum.

Answer 13

Lennox: We could mend, that. Couldn’t we, Dyl?

Question 14

Cooper: Now, what about the elves?

Answer 14

Lennox: Really? Elves?

Question 15

Cooper: I’m in charge. You’re my eyes.

Answer 15

Lennox: I’m not/ really

Question 16

Dylan: /I can see a tiny door, and if I just brush this moss out of the way, here, help me Lennox.

Answer 16

Lennox: Do I really…

Question 17

Dylan: Oh, wow! In this crumbly bit of a wall, there’s an old wasps nest.

Answer 17

Lennox: A nest? But it’s… it’s like paper!

Question 18

Dylan: Of course it is. The fairies make it, out of spider webs. And the wasps, they are the warriors for the elves.

Answer 18

Lennox: (Feeling silly, trying) They…

Question 19

Cooper: Yes, go on…

Answer 19

Lennox: They take them on missions, and to… choir practice!

Question 20

Cooper: Choir practice?!

Answer 20

Lennox: This is stupid. I/ don’t

Question 21

Dylan: And these shoots popping through, they’re an agility course for rats.

Answer 21

Lennox And bats.

Question 22

Cooper: And cats!

Answer 22

Lennox: They’d have to be small cats.

Question 23

Dylan: In hats!

Answer 23

Lennox: You’re ridiculous!

Question 24

Dylan I know.

All sit down together, next to Cooper

Answer 24

Lennox: It really is incredible, isn’t it?

Question 25

Cooper: Since mum died, I guess

Answer 25

Lennox: Do you miss her? Sorry, silly question.

Question 26

Cooper: Yes. Well, not her, I can’t remember her so much even though I try. The thought of her being here though, I miss that loads. And how dad would have been, if she was still here.

Answer 26

Lennox: I don’t really remember my Mum either, she didn’t, she’s not dead just, not around

Question 27

Cooper: Dad’s sister? My…

Answer 27

Lennox: Auntie

Question 28

Cooper: I’ve never, I don’t even know her name. Dad said she was, you know, off the rails a bit.

Answer 28

Lennox: Wild. Like me.

Question 29

Dylan: Wild can be lovely you know? Nature’s wild and that’s the most beautiful, powerful thing there is. Like sea storms and blazing sunshine.

Answer 29

Lennox: I like that. Maybe I’m just blazing.

Question 30

Dylan: And it’s better than being boring. Which everyone thinks I am. Cooper: //We don’t!

Answer 30

Lennox: //You’re not!

Question 31

Dylan: It’s just Mam, sorry, I know I should be, I love her, don’t get me wrong. And I know I’m lucky to, you know… Cooper: //It’s okay

Answer 31

Lennox: //Don’t worry

Question 32

Cooper: She likes to tell you what to do. Dylan: No, that’s not! She just…

Answer 32

Lennox: Yes?

Question 33

Dylan: … likes to tell me what to do. She treats me like a child, all of the time. Until I met you two, I never thought about having, friends, of my own, it was just always me and Mam. And I’d like to see, sometimes, what I can do by myself, you know? Cooper: I know

Answer 33

Lennox: Susan. My Mum’s name.

Question 34

Cooper: Aunty Susan

Answer 34

Lennox: Come to think of it, why does everyone call your Dad Mr Craven? What’s his name?

Question 35

Dylan: Guess!

Answer 35

Lennox: Mmm… Bob? Steve? No wait, something grand for the lord of the manor, Ernest? Bartholomew? Hypoculus!

Question 36

Cooper: That’s not a name!

Answer 36

Lennox: It is now! Well?

Question 37

Dylan: Maybe we could make it nice again Cooper: For Mum?

Answer 37

Lennox: Yes!

Question 38

Cooper: I feel a bit… I’ll be fine.

Answer 38

Lennox: You said twenty minutes and we need to listen to you.

Question 39

Dylan: You need to listen to you! You’re not spoiling anything.

Answer 39

Lennox: The garden’s not going anywhere, we can come back anytime now.

Question 40

Cooper: To make it beautiful.

Answer 40

Lennox: To make it ours.

Question 41

Dylan: Our secret. Spit on it!

Answer 41

Lennox: Ugh, what, gross! Can’t we just shake?