When Lucy woke up m it was like waking up on the day of an examination or a day when yoing to the dentist. It was a lovely m with bees buzzing in and out of her open window and the lawn outside looking very like somewhere in England. She got up and dresd and tried to talk a ordinarily at breakfast. Then, after being instructed by the Chief Voice about what she was to do upstairs, she bid good-bye to the others, said nothing, walked to the bottom of the stairs, and began going up them without once looking back.
It was quite light, that was one good thing. There was, indeed, a window straight ahead of her at the top of the first flight. As long as she was on that flight she could hear the tick-tock-tick-tock of a grandfather clo the hall below. Then she came to the landing and had to turn to her left up the flight; after that she couldn’t hear the cloy more.
Now she had e to the top of the stairs. Lucy looked and saw a long, wide passage with a large window at the far end. Apparently the passage ran the whole length of the hou. It was carved and paneled, and carpeted and very many doors opened off it on each side. She stood still and couldn’t hear the squeak of a mou, or the buzzing of a fly, or the swaying of a curtain, or anything—except the beating of her ow.
When Lucy woke up m it was like waking up on the day of an examination or a day when yoing to the dentist. It was a lovely m with bees buzzing in and out of her open window and the lawn outside looking very like somewhere in England. She got up and dresd and tried to talk a ordinarily at breakfast. Then, after being instructed by the Chief Voice about what she was to do upstairs, she bid good-bye to the others, said nothing, walked to the bottom of the stairs, and began going up them without once looking back.
It was quite light, that was one good thing. There was, indeed, a window straight ahead of her at the top of the first flight. As long as she was on that flight she could hear the tick-tock-tick-tock of a grandfather clo the hall below. Then she came to the landing and had to turn to her left up the flight; after that she couldn’t hear the cloy more.
Now she had e to the top of the stairs. Lucy looked and saw a long, wide passage with a large window at the far end. Apparently the passage ran the whole length of the hou. It was carved and paneled, and carpeted and very many doors opened off it on each side. She stood still and couldn’t hear the squeak of a mou, or the buzzing of a fly, or the swaying of a curtain, or anything—except the beating of her ow.