Chapter 8: Con Amour

Cadet Karissa Lowell loves the Broadway Musical The Secret Garden, lyrics are done by Lucy Simon and Marsha Mason.

Karissa sits out in Madame's hidden garden with her lute in her arms and she starts to sing a song from the Secret Garden "The Girl I Mean to Be.

I need a place where I can go
Where I can whisper what I know
Where I can whisper who I like
And where I go to see them

I need a place where I can hide
Where no one sees my life inside
Where I can take my plans and write them down
So I can read them

A place where I can bid my heart be still
And it will mind me
A place where I can go when I am lost
And there I will find me

I need a place to spend the day
Where no one says to go or stay
Where I can take my pen and draw
The girl I mean to be

SONGWRITERS
LEVINE LUCY SIMON; NORMAN MARSHA
Karissa is all by herself when she sings and she sings with her heart and soul.
Karissa tells herself, "Music is the one of the greatest things that one of The Muse have given human kind. "

Karissa loves the garden that Madame has given her and she is the only one with the key that unlocks the wooden door and it her private domain and space.

Madame understands Karissa and Karissa respects Madame and all the other young women that feel safe at her boarding house.

Karissa continues to sing other songs from The Secret Garden

Author's Note