Poor Lucy gave Edmund one look and rushed out of the room.
Edmund, who was being a nastier person every mihought that he had scored a great success, a on at oo say.“There she goes again.What’s the matter with her?That’s the worst of young kids, they always—”
“Look here,”said Peter, turning on him savagely.“shut up！You’ve been perfectly beastly to Lu ever since she started this nonn about the wardrobe, and now you go playing games with her about it and tting her off again.I believe you did it simply out of spite.”
“But it’s all nonn,”said Edmund, very taken aback.
“Of cour it’s all nonn,”said Peter.“that’s just the point.Lu erfectly all right when we left home, but since we’ve been down here she ems to be either going queer in the head or el turning into a most frightful liar.But whichever it is, what good do you think you’ll do by jeering and nagging at her one day and encihe ?”
“I thought—I thought,”said Edmund; but he couldn’t think of anything to say.
Poor Lucy gave Edmund one look and rushed out of the room.
Edmund, who was being a nastier person every mihought that he had scored a great success, a on at oo say.“There she goes again.What’s the matter with her?That’s the worst of young kids, they always—”
“Look here,”said Peter, turning on him savagely.“shut up！You’ve been perfectly beastly to Lu ever since she started this nonn about the wardrobe, and now you go playing games with her about it and tting her off again.I believe you did it simply out of spite.”
“But it’s all nonn,”said Edmund, very taken aback.
“Of cour it’s all nonn,”said Peter.“that’s just the point.Lu erfectly all right when we left home, but since we’ve been down here she ems to be either going queer in the head or el turning into a most frightful liar.But whichever it is, what good do you think you’ll do by jeering and nagging at her one day and encihe ?”
“I thought—I thought,”said Edmund; but he couldn’t think of anything to say.
“You didn’t think anything at all,”said Peter.“it’s just spite.You’ve always liked beily to anyone smaller than yourlf; we’ve en that at school before now.”
“Do stop it,”said Susan.“it won’t make things aer having a row between you two.Let’s go and find Lucy.”
It was not surprising that when they found Lucy, a good deal later, everyone could e that she had been g.Nothing they could say to her made any difference.She stuck to her story and said：