welcome. I sit here. I like sitting. Derry: I’d not come to steal anything.
I just.... wanted to come in. Into the garden. Mr.
Lamb: So, you did. Here we are, then. Derry: You don’t know who I am. Mr.
Lamb: A boy. Thirteen or so. Who is Derry? Why does Derry enter Mr.
Lamb’s garden? What startles Derry as he enters the garden? Unit- - THE CHALLENGE - - - Derry: Fourteen. [ Pause ] But I’ve got to go now.
Good-bye. Mr. Lamb: Nothing to be afraid of. Just a garden.
Just me. Derry: But I’m not....I’m not afraid. [Pause] Peo- ple are afraid of me. Mr.
Lamb: Why should that be? Derry: You look at me...and then you see my face and you think. ‘That’s bad. That’s a terrible thing.
That’s the ugliest thing I ever saw.’ You think, ‘Poor boy.’ But I’m not. Not poor. Underneath, you are afraid. Anybody would be.
I am. When I look in the mirror, and see it, I’m afraid of me. Mr. Lamb: No, Not the whole of you.
Not of you. Derry: Yes![Pause] Mr. Lamb: Later on, when it’s a bit cooler, I’ll get the ladder and a stick, and pull down those crab apples . They’re ripe for it.
I make jelly. It’s a good time of year, September. Look at them.... orange and golden.
That’s magic fruit. I often say. But it’s best picked and made into jelly. You could give me a hand.
Derry: What have you changed the subject for? People always do that. Why don’t you ask me? Why do you do what they all do and pretend it isn’t true and isn’t there?
In case I see you looking and mind and get upset? I’ll tell.... you don’t ask me because you’re afraid to. Mr.
Lamb: You want me to ask.... say so, then. Derry: I don’t like being with people. Any people.
Mr. Lamb: I should say....to look at it.... I should say, you got burned in a fire. Derry: Not in a fire.