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1 You are wondering why the curtain is drawn back.
The Secret GardenBy Frances Hodgson Burnett ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXV
2 She could look at it because the curtain had been drawn aside.
The Secret GardenBy Frances Hodgson Burnett ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXV
3 It was a curtain of soft silk hanging over what seemed to be some picture.
The Secret GardenBy Frances Hodgson Burnett ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XIII
4 And this is the ivy the wind blew back, and she took hold of the hanging green curtain.
The Secret GardenBy Frances Hodgson Burnett ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XX
5 When she pulled it the silk curtain ran back on rings and when it ran back it uncovered a picture.
The Secret GardenBy Frances Hodgson Burnett ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XIII
6 Thick as the ivy hung, it nearly all was a loose and swinging curtain, though some had crept over wood and iron.
The Secret GardenBy Frances Hodgson Burnett ContextHighlight In CHAPTER VIII
7 The room was quite light and there was a patch of moonlight on the curtain and somehow that made me go and pull the cord.
The Secret GardenBy Frances Hodgson Burnett ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXV
8 There were other trees in the garden, and one of the things which made the place look strangest and loveliest was that climbing roses had run all over them and swung down long tendrils which made light swaying curtains, and here and there they had caught at each other or at a far-reaching branch and had crept from one tree to another and made lovely bridges of themselves.
The Secret GardenBy Frances Hodgson Burnett ContextHighlight In CHAPTER IX