“Anyway,” said Susan, “there may be currents. Father says it’s never wi to bathe in a place you don’t know.”
“But, Peter,” said Lucy, “look here. I know I ’t swim for nuts at home—in England, I mean. But couldn’t we all swim long ago—if it was long ago—when we were Kings and Queens in Narnia? We could ride then too, and do all sorts of things. Don’t you think—”
“Ah, but we were sort of grown-up then,” said Peter. “We reigned for years and years and learo do things. Aren’t we just back at our pres again now?”
“Oh！” said Edmund in a voice which made everyoop talking and listen to him.
“I’ve just en it all,” he said.
“Seen what?” asked Peter.
“Why, the whole thing,” said Edmund. “You know what we were puzzling about last night, that it was only a year ago since we left Narnia but everything looks as if no one had lived in Cair Paravel for hundreds of years? Well, don’t you e? You know that, however long we emed to have lived in Narnia, whe back through the wardrobe it emed to have taken no time at all?”
“Anyway,” said Susan, “there may be currents. Father says it’s never wi to bathe in a place you don’t know.”
“But, Peter,” said Lucy, “look here. I know I ’t swim for nuts at home—in England, I mean. But couldn’t we all swim long ago—if it was long ago—when we were Kings and Queens in Narnia? We could ride then too, and do all sorts of things. Don’t you think—”
“Ah, but we were sort of grown-up then,” said Peter. “We reigned for years and years and learo do things. Aren’t we just back at our pres again now?”
“Oh！” said Edmund in a voice which made everyoop talking and listen to him.
“I’ve just en it all,” he said.
“Seen what?” asked Peter.
“Why, the whole thing,” said Edmund. “You know what we were puzzling about last night, that it was only a year ago since we left Narnia but everything looks as if no one had lived in Cair Paravel for hundreds of years? Well, don’t you e? You know that, however long we emed to have lived in Narnia, whe back through the wardrobe it emed to have taken no time at all?”
“Go on,” said Susan. “I think I’m beginning to uand.”
“And that means,” tinued Edmund, “that, once you’re out of Narnia, you have no idea how Narnian time is going. Why shouldn’t hundreds of years have gone past in Narnia while only one year has pasd for us in England?”