CHAPTER THREE
EDMUND AND t of ty room into three.quot;Its all rig; sed, quot;Ive comeback.”
quot; on eartalking about, Lucy?quot; asked Susan.
quot;, quot; you all been wondering where I was?”
quot;So youve been ; said Peter. quot;Poor old Lu, iced!
Youll o if you people to start looking for you.”
quot;But Ive been away for ; said Lucy.
tared at one another.
quot;Batty!quot; said Edmund, tapping ;Quite batty.”
quot; do you mean, Lu?quot; asked Peter.
quot; I said,quot; ans;It after breakfast o tea, and all sorts of things have happened.”
quot;Dont be silly, Lucy,quot; said Susan. quot;eve only just come out of t room a moment ago, and you hen.”
quot;S being silly at all,quot; said Peter, quot;s making up a story for fun, arent you, Lu? And w she?”
quot;No, Peter, Im not,quot; s;Its - its a magic , and its snocs called Narnia; come and see.”
t knoo t Lucy ed t t back o t;Now! go in and see for yourselves.”
quot;; said Susan, putting s apart, quot;its just an ordinary .”
ts apart; and tly ordinary . Peter in and rapped to make sure t it was solid.
quot;A jolly good ; again; quot;you aken us in, I must admit. e half believed you.”
quot;But it a all,quot; said Lucy, quot;really and truly. It a moment ago. ly it was. I promise.”
quot;Come, Lu,quot; said Peter, quot;ts going a bit far. Youve you better drop it now?”
Lucy greried to say somet srying to say, and burst into tears.
For t fee easily at any moment if s o say t tory made up for fun. But Lucy rut s; and s bring o say t selling a lie, and a silly lie too, made meaning to do it, but Edmund could be spiteful, and on teful. Lucy and kept on asking ries in ot made it t to ful. t of doors from morning to nigrees, and lying in t Lucy could not properly enjoy any of it. And so t on until t day.
t day, o ternoon and till no sign of a break in to play ;Itquot; and as soon as ttered to to t mean to talking again about tc s to ; for by time so ed and full of s sime to o then hide somewhere else.
But as soon as s seps in tside, and t but to jump into the door closed behind her. She did
not s it properly because s it is very silly to s oneself into a is not a magic one.
Noeps so t in time to see Lucy vaniso t once decided to get into it because it a particularly good place to because ed to go on teasing ry. s ;So catc; said Edmund to ;and so s in at t; tting for Lucy in ted to find . o open t in some lig find t like t all and began groping ion; ed out, quot;Lucy! Lu! here are you? I know youre here.”
ticed t t in a cupboard, but a kind of open-air sound. iced t edly cold; and t.
quot;t; said Edmund, quot;t s o; all about Lucy and to, instead of finding epping out into tepping out from trees into an open place in the middle of a wood.
t and more snorees. Over of sky one sees on a fine er day in traigree-trunks t rising, very red and clear. Everytly still, as if ure in t country. t even a robin or a squirrel among trees, and tretcion. he shivered.
o ;imaginary countryquot; not to all. t s be some;Lucy! Lucy! Im oo-Edmund.”
there was no answer.
quot;S all tely,quot; t Edmund. And t like to admit t mucrange, cold, quiet place; so ed again.
quot;I say, Lu! Im sorry I didnt believe you. I see no Pax.”
Still there was no answer.
quot;Just like a girl,quot; said Edmund to ;sulking some an apology.quot; muc made up o go ened and t last t into sigwo reindeer.
t tland ponies and te t even te compared t leat a fat d anding. assel s point; ead of a rug. But be in t a very different person - a great lady, taller t Edmund e fur up to and raig e - not merely pale, but for iful face in ots, but proud and cold and stern.
t as it came so.
quot;Stop!quot; said t t sat doood cs and bloy air t of trils looked like smoke.
quot;And ; said t Edmund.
quot;Im-Im-my names Edmund,quot; said Edmund rat like t him.
t;Is t ; serner than ever.
quot;I beg your pardon, your Majesty, I didnt kno; said Edmund: quot;Not kno; cried s;ter er. But I repeat-w are you?”
quot;Please, your Majesty,quot; said Edmund, quot;I dont kno sc least I s the holidays now.”