Scene 4 Flashcards
Martha: That’s the thing about Lennox. She starts things in motion, makes things happen. When she sets her mind to something, when she wants something, when she finds the thing to put all of that energy of hers into… well, there’s no getting in her way then!
Lennox: Your Mum said you were in here.
Dylan: She said you wanted to hang out
Lennox: It was her idea.
Lennox: Shall we go outside?
Cooper: Dylan’s with me
Lennox: Well… you come too then
Cooper: No.
Lennox: Right. Well I asked. Your choice. Come on Dylan.
Cooper: Stay here Dylan.
Dylan is torn.
Lennox: Fine! We’ll just… sit. Here.
Cooper: Ow!
Lennox: Give over, I barely touched you
Cooper: What did you do then?
Lennox: When?
Dylan: (Falters) Mum said you were excluded, from school?
Lennox: Two. Two schools.
Cooper: Well then..?
Lennox: I’ll tell you that if you tell me something.
Cooper: What?
Lennox: Not you! Dylan. Beth said you knew the garden better than her.
Dylan: (Proud) Did she?
Lennox: Or something like that and I want to know where the secret garden is. Where Mr and Mrs Craven/ used
Dylan: /Mum been telling you her stories, has she?
Lennox: They’re not stories. Unless your Mum’s a liar?
Dylan: No. Course not. Telling stories and lying are not the same thing.
Lennox: It is if you don’t tell people they’re stories. So?
Dylan: Cooper? Cooper: I’m not telling her. Dylan: Cooper’s/ been Cooper: /Stop it! Dylan: But what if it is real? What if Mum isn’t just telling a story. What if…
Lennox: Hello? What are you talking about?
Dylan: When Mum used to tell that stor- tell me about the garden – she said that after Cooper was born, they took her in too. Like a magical den for the three of them.
Lennox turns to look at Cooper.
Dylan: And Cooper’s dreamt about it.
Lennox: Tell us then!
Dylan: Maybe now’s not, she’s not feeling /very well
Lennox: /It’s just talking. Come on.