“We’ve been there, too,” snapped Jill. She was very angry becau she could feel entmeing hold of her every moment. But of cour the very fact that she could still feel it, showed that it had not yet fully worked.
“And thou art Queen of Narnia too, I doubt not, pretty one,” said the Wit the same coaxing, half-mog tone.
“I’m nothing of the sort,” said Jill, stamping her foot. “We e from another world.”
“Why, this is a prettier game thaher,” said the Witch. “Tell us, little maid, where is this other world? What ships and chariots go between it and ours?”
Of cour a lot of things darted into Jill’s head at once：Experiment Hou, Adela Pennyfather, her own home, radio-ts, emas, cars, aeroplanes, ration-books, queues. But they emed dim and far away. （Thrum thrum — thrum — went the strings of the Witch’s instrument.） Jill couldn’t remember the names of the things in our world. And this time it didn’t e into her head that she was being ented, for now the magic was in its full strength; and of cour, the more ented you get, the more certain you feel that you are not ented at all. She found herlf saying （and at the moment it was a relief to say）：“No. I suppo that other world must be all a dream.”
“Yes. It is all a dream,” said the Witch, always thrumming.
“Yes, all a dream,” said Jill.
“There never was such a world,” said the Witch.
“No,” said Jill and Scrubb, “never was such a world.”
“There never was any world but mine,” said the Witch.
“There never was any world but yours,” said they.
Puddleglum was still fighting hard. “I don’t knhtly what you all mean by a world,” he said, talking like a man who hasn’t enough air. “But you play that fiddle till your fingers drop off, and still you won’t make me fet Narnia; and the whole Overworld too. We’ll never e it again, I shouldn’t wonder. You may have blotted it out and tur dark like this, for all I know. Nothing more likely. But I know I was there once. I’ve en the sky full of stars. I’ve en the sun ing up out of the a of a m and sinking behind the mountains at night. And I’ve en him up in the midday sky when I couldn’t look at him fhtness.”
Puddleglum’s words had a very rousing effect. The other three all breathed again and looked at one another like people newly awaked.