“By the Lion’s Mane,”cried Tirian.“Tho two!The Lord Digory and the Lady Polly!From the dawn of the world!And still in your place?The wonder and the glory of it!But tell me, tell me.”
“She isn’t really our aunt, you know,”said Eustace.“She’s Miss Plummer, but we call her Aunt Polly.Well tho two got us all together partly just for fun, so that we could all have a good jaw about Narnia(for of cour there’s no one el we ever talk to about things like that), but partly becau the Professor had a feeling that we were somehow wanted over here.Well then you came in like a ghost oodness-knows-what and nearly frightehe lives out of us and vanished without saying a word.After that, we knew for certain there was something up.The question was how to get here.You ’t go just by wanting to.So we talked and talked and at last the Professor said the only way would be by the Magigs.It was by ths that he and Aunt Polly got here long, long ago when they were only kids, years before we younger ones were born.But the Rings had all been buried in the garden of a hou in London(that’s town, Sire)and the hou had been sold.So then the problem was how to get at them.You’ll never guess what we did in the eer and Edmund—that’s the High Kier, the one who spoke to you—went up to London to get into the garden from the back, early in the m before people were up.They were dresd like workmen so that if anyone did e them it would look as if they’d e to do something about the drains.I wish I’d been with them; it must have been glorious fun.And they must have succeeded for day Peter nt us a wire—that’s a sort of message, Sire, I’ll explain about it some other time—to say he’d got the Rings.And the day after that was the day Pole and I had to go back to school—we’re the only two who are still at school and we’re at the same one.So Peter and Edmuo meet us at a pla the way down to school and hand over the Rings.It had to be us tere to go to Narnia, you e, becau the older ones couldn’t e again.So we got into the train that’s a kind of thing people travel in in our world:a lot of wagons ed together—and the Professor and Aunt Polly and Lucy came with us.We wao keep together as long as we could.Well there we were irain.And we were just getting to the statiohe others were to meet us, and I was looking out of the window to e if I could e them when suddenly there came a most frightful jerk and a noi, and there we were in Narnia and there was your Majesty tied up to the tree.”