Frances Hodgson Burnett suffered a physical collapse that autumn. She returned to America, and in the winter of 1902 entered a sanatorium. There she told Townsend she would no longer live with him, and the marriage ended. She returned to Maytham two years later in June 1904. Maytham Hall had a series of walled gardens and in the rose garden she wrote several books; it was there she had the idea for "The Secret Garden", mainly written in Buile Hill Park while visiting Manchester. In 1905 "A Little Princess" was published, after she had reworked the play into a novel. Once again Burnett
Sahib for many years, even when no Indian or Pakistani crew featured in the ship's company. The term is used throughout the children's novel "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. In Herman Cyril McNeile's 1920 novel "Bulldog Drummond", an Indian magician was performing tricks in front of a crowd and drew attention to a mysterious box. E.M. Forster also employed the term in his 1924 novel "A Passage to India". His Anglo-Indian characters refer to the Collector as Burra Sahib, implying the respect felt for him. The following dialogue in Dorothy Sayers's 1926 novel "Clouds of Witness" shows what the