He had been so busy caring for his garden that he had not heard the other boys planning the part each would take when they sang carols the night before Three Kings' Day.
You know, when it comes to nature, I think of things like, you know, tending your garden so that it can grow and flourish because there are going to be weeds that crop in, right?
Many work a lifetime tending flower gardens for the pleasure of one or two people. Many of us polish slick waxed floors of fine houses. Or we drive automobiles for rich people who are too lazy to drive themselves.
When we had conversed for a while, Miss Havisham sent us two out to walk in the neglected garden: on our coming in by and by, she said, I should wheel her about a little, as in times of yore.