00:05:10Perilmoderate
India, 1901. Mary hides under a bed after breaking an ivory elephant. The room shakes: objects smash, people scream outside, elephants roar, fire starts nearby. Her parents are at a party and do not come back. Played as a sudden disaster, not a long illness -- this cut uses an earthquake, not cholera.
Theme. A child's world ending in noise and falling plaster is a body-memory of 'the grown-ups did not come'. Off-screen death still lands as death. Fire plus screaming stacks startle on top of loss.
What to say. You might say: 'The ground shakes and her parents do not come back. That is how she becomes an orphan in this film. We can skip to the ship if the noise and fire are too much.'