![]() Mary accepts with no inclination of returning here. Madam Mumblechook and Doctor D both are highly impressed with Mary’s magical abilities and gladly invite her to become a pupil. Mary tries it successfully and so does Tib. They arrive to an advanced class where Doctor D is teaching invisibility. She is welcomed and escorted by Madam Mumblechook through the school, who proudly shows all her classes to Mary. Tib also manages to cling on to the broomstick and together they arrive to Endor College, a magical school. But, without meaning to, she uses the juice from the witch’s flowers and her little broomstick is flying away even before she knows it. She decides to help Zebedee by sweeping fallen leaves from the garden beds. The elderly ladies of the house have to go and visit a friend and so Mary is left on her own on the next day. Zebedee also tells Mary that Tib has a brother called Gib, who lives in the vicar’s house in the village. Mary however is too happy and excited to have found a playmate and is not worried about anything. Later Mary learns from the gardener Zebedee that the cat is called Tib after a witch’s cat and the uncommon flowers are widely known as the witch’s flowers. ![]() She finds a lively black cat in the garden that leads her to an interesting clump of flowers in the woods. This however does not go very well and Mary is left to roam on her own. On one dull autumn morning, she is out in the grounds trying to help the gardener. The only companion, she could have had was the vicar’s son Peter, but the family are gone away for some time. She has no companions and is at loss to find something to do to while away her days. While the household comprises of kind and good-natured ladies, it is an utterly boring place for a child. ![]() Her parents are going to America for a month and Mary ends up spending this period with a kind and elderly Great-aunt Charlotte in the old red brick house in the countryside. With an absolutely typical and commonplace name and an appearance to match it, Mary Smith finds her life very dull compared to her bright and energetic siblings.
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