Scene: Colin's Room

Get out!
Who are you?
Are you a ghost?

No I'm not
I'm Mary Lennox
Archibald Craven is my uncle

I am Colin
Archibald Craven is my father
I see no one
And no one sees me
Including my father
I am going to die

How do you know?

Because I hear every whisper about it
If I live, I may be a hunchback
But I shan't live
Where did you come from?

From India
My parents died there of cholera

My mother died, too
When I was four

A time my father hates

He hates the garden, too

What garden?

Why do you scream all the time?
Do you have bad dreams?
I have bad dreams in this house