[00:00.57] Chapter 1.
[00:02.27] No one left.
[00:04.80] Mary sighed as the train pulled out of the station.
[00:09.18] More traveling, she thought to herself.
[00:12.75] I've been going from person to person for weeks, like the booby prize in pass the parcel.
[00:20.04] She was going to stay with the only relation she had left, her uncle Archibald in Yorkshire.
[00:28.11] Her black dress was stiff and itchy.
[00:31.62] She felt cold.
[00:34.51] Was England always so wet, so gray?
[00:38.79] It was very different from India.
[00:43.33] Even the people were different.
[00:47.40] They looked and sounded strange.
[00:52.91] Just then, Mrs. Medlock spoke.
[00:56.44] She was her uncle's housekeeper and had come to take Mary back to Yorkshire.
[01:03.96] So, said Mrs. Medlock, what do you know about your uncle?
[01:09.56] Mary said nothing.
[01:12.73] What a rude child, thought Mrs. Medlock, and very plain looking.
[01:19.66] Why, her face is so pale, almost yellow.
[01:24.26] But she asked again, what did your mother and father tell you about your uncle?
[01:33.70] Mary just stared out of the window and scoled.
[01:38.31] The truth was, Mary's mother and father had never said much to her about anything.
[01:46.96] Her father was always at work, and her mother was always at some party or other.
[01:56.11] Well, I'll tell you anyway, Mrs. Medlock sniffed.
[02:01.92] First of all, don't go expecting a big welcome when you get to Mistelweight Manner.
[02:09.87] I sha't, Mary said, stung, as if she had been accused of something.
[02:17.69] Mrs. Medlock raised an eyebrow.
[02:20.75] Oh, you sha't, sha't you?
[02:24.26] Well, it's a good job because you sha't get one.
[02:29.69] Mr. Craven's as sour as a crab apple.
[02:35.91] His wife dying young didn't help, but he was like it before then.
[02:41.76] He was born with a crooked back, see?
[02:46.42] That formed him, if you want my opinion.
[02:51.64] Mary felt her spirits sink even lower.
[02:56.12] So, Yorkshire was going to be just like India then, where no one wanted her.
[03:07.02] As if to prove it, when they finally arrived at Mistelweight Manner, Mrs. Medlock took her straight upstairs.
[03:17.54] Master doesn't want to see you, she said.
[03:21.02] He's going to London in the morning.
[03:25.93] Fine.
[03:28.72] I don't want to see him either, Mary thought.
[03:33.93] Holding her head high, she followed Mrs. Medlock up a broad staircase and a long corridor after corridor.
[03:45.34] At last, Mary was shown into a room.
[03:49.80] It had a fire in it and a supper set out.
[03:55.55] Well, here you are.
[03:58.75] This room and the next is where you'll stay, and I mean stay.
[04:05.15] No wandering about.
[04:09.09] Mr. Craven won't have it and nor will I, Mrs. Medlock told her.
[04:16.59] With that warm welcome, Mary Lennox was left alone.