“It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating,”said the Queely.“What would you like best to eat?”
“Turkish Delight, plea, your Majesty,”said Edmund.
The Quee another drop fall from her bottle onto the snow, and instantly there appeared a round box, tied with green silk ribbon, which, when opeurned out to tain veral pounds of the best Turkish Delight.Edmund was quite warm now, and very fortable.
While he was eating the Quee asking him questions.At first Edmund tried to remember that it is rude to speak with one’s mouth full, but soon he fot about this and thought only to shovel down as much Turkish Delight as he could, and the more he ate the more he wao eat, and he never asked himlf why the Queen should be so inquisitive.She got him to tell her that he had one brother and two sisters, and that one of his sisters had already been in Narnia and had met a Faun there, and that no one except himlf and his brother and his sisters knew anything about Narnia.She emed especially ied in the fact that there were four of them, a on ing back to it.“You are sure there are just four of you?”she asked.“Two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve, her more nor less?”and Edmund, with his mouth full of Turkish Delight, kept on saying.“Yes, I told you that before.”
At last the Turkish Delight was all finished and Edmund was looking very hard at the empty box and wishing that she would ask him whether he would like some more.Probably the Queen knew quite well what he was thinking; for she khough Edmund did not, that this was ented Turkish Delight and that anyone who had oasted it would want more and more of it, and would even, if they were allowed, go oing it till they killed themlves.But she did not offer him any more.Instead, she said to him,
“Son of Adam, I should so much like to e your brother and your two sisters.Will y them to e me?”
“I’ll try,”said Edmund, still looking at the empty box.
“Becau, if you did e again—bringing them with you of cour—I’d be able to give you some more Turkish Delight.I ’t do it now, the magic will only work on my own hou it would be another matter.”
“Why ’t we go to your hou now?”said Edmund.When he had first got onto the sledge he had been afraid that she might drive away with him to some unknown place from which he would not be able to get back; but he had fotten about that fear now.