"i should like to see them," said mary. "where is the green door? there must be a door somewhere." ben drove his spade deep and looked as uncompanionable as he had looked when she first saw him. "there was ten year' ago, but there isn't now," he said. which explains why ben weatherstaff's expression became "uncompanionable"?

The correct answer is:  

Talking about the secret garden is painful for Ben.

In The Secret Garden (1911), a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett,  the gardener Ben Weatherstaff finds it painful to talk about the late Mrs. Craven, who used to spend hours in the secluded garden growing roses. Mrs. Craven had died after a mishap in the garden, so Mr. Craven locked the garden and hid the key.

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d. a story that frightened readers so much they would become suspicious of their surroundings

frankenstein is one of the terror novels wrote by the writers in a sort of bet, lord byron challenged them all to write a ghost story, and the story came to mary shelley in a dream, she wanted to conect with the fears of her society, fears of technology and changes, and she wanted readers to look around, freightened.

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