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It was the lock of the door which had been closed ten years and she put her hand in her pocket, drew out the key and found it fitted the keyhole. She put the key in and turned it. It took two hands to do it, but it did turn.
And then she took a long breath....She was standing inside the secret garden.

Source edit

  • Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. F.A. Stokes, 1911. P. 96.