Fill in the Blanks The Secret Garden - Post-Reading Gap-Fill Sentences Ch. 6-8Online version These are sentences from chapters 6-8. Fill in the blanks. by Maria Kehr-Raggay 1 wistfully (slightly sadly because you are thinking about something you cannot have dreary (boring and making you feel unhappy ceased (stopped slammed governess (a woman employed to teach the children in a family at home The master had better get you a ) , same as he said he would . Mrs . Medlock , the housekeeper went out of the room and the door after her . The wind itself had ) , and a brilliant , deep blue sky arched high over the moorland . The far - reaching world of the moor itself looked softly blue instead of gloomy purple - black or awful ) gray . " Could I ever get there ? " asked Mary ) ( . . . ) . 2 homely (comfortable and pleasant reflective (as in thinking carefully and quietly mystified (confused stoutly (in a firm and determined way baffling (impossible for someone to understand or explain " Well , " said Martha ) ( . . . ) . Martha looked ) again . Martha grinned a little as if at some ) recollection ( a memory of something ) . The ivy was the ) thing . She gazed ( looked for a long time , in surprise ) at the skipping rope with a ) expressio n