“Does he know,”whispered Lucy to Susan.“what Aslan did for him?Does he know what the arra with the Witch really was?”
“Hush！No.Of cour not,”said Susan.
“Oughtn’t he to be told?”said Lucy.
“Oh, surely not,”said Susan.“It would be too awful for him.Think how you’d feel if you were he.”
“All the same I think he ought to know,”said Lucy.But at that moment they were interrupted.
That night they slept where they were.How Aslan provided food for them all I don’t know; but somehow or other they found themlves all sitting down on the grass to a fine high tea at about eight o’cloext day they began marg eastward down the side of the great river.And the day after that, at about teatime, they actually reached the mouth.
That evening after tea the four children all mao get down to the beach again aheir shoes and stogs off ahe saweeoes.But day was more solemn.For then, in the Great Hall of Cair Paravel—that wonderful hall with the ivory roof and the west wall hung with peacock’s feathers and the eastern door which looks towards the a, in the prence of all their friends and to the sound of trumpets, Aslan solemnly ed them ahem to the four thrones amid deafening shouts of.“Long Live Kier！Long Live Queen Susan！Long Live King Edmund！Long Live Queen Lucy！”
“Once a king or queen in Narnia, always a king or queen.Bear it well, Sons of Adam！Bear it well, Daughters of Eve！”said Aslan.
And through the eastern door, which was wide open, came the voices of the mermen and the mermaids swimming clo to the shore and singing in honour of their new Kings and Queens.
So the children sat ohrones and sceptres were put into their hands and they gave rewards and honours to all their friends, to Tumnus the Faun, and to the Beavers, and Giant Rumblebuffin, to the leopards, and the good taurs, and the good dwarfs, and to the lion.And that night there was a great feast in Cair Paravel, and revelry and dang, and gold flashed and wine flowed, and answering to the musiside, but stranger, sweeter, and more pierg, came the music of the a people.
But amidst all the rejoigs Aslan himlf quietly slipped away.And when the Kings and Queens noticed that he wasn’t there they said nothing about it.For Mr.Beaver had warhem.“He’ll be ing and going,”he had said.“One day you’ll e him and another you won’t.He doesn’t like being tied down and of cour he has other tries to attend to.It’s quite all right.He’ll often drop in.Only you mustn’t press him.He’s wild, you know.Not like a tame lion.”
And now, as you e, this story is nearly（but not quite）at ahe two Kings and two Queens governed Narnia well, and long and happy was their reign.At first much of their time ent in eking out the remnants of the White Witch’s army aroying them, and indeed for a long time there would be news of evil things lurking in the wilder parts of the forest—a haunting here and a killing there, a glimp of a werewolf one month and a rumour of a hag the .But in the end all that foul brood was stamped out.And they made good laws ahe pead saved good trees from being unnecessarily cut down, and liberated young dwarfs and young satyrs from being nt to school, and generally stopped busybodies and interferers and enced ordinary people who wao live a live.And they drove back the fierce giants（quite a different sort from Giant Rumblebuffin）on the north of Narnia when the ventured across the frontier.And they entered into friendship and alliah tries beyond the a and paid them visits of state and received visits of state from them.And they themlves grew and ged as the years pasd over them.Aer became a tall and deep-chested man and a great warrior, and he was called Kier the Magnifit.And Susan grew into a tall and gracious woman with black hair that fell almost to her feet and the kings of the tries beyond the a began to nd ambassadors asking for her hand in marriage.And she was called Susan the Gentle.Edmund was a graver and quieter man thaer, and great in cil and judgement.He was called King Edmund the Just.But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all princes in tho parts desired her to be their Queen, and her own people called her Queen Lucy the Valiant.