“Thanks awfully for the lunch,” said Lucy and turned quickly away. She ran down the stairs which she had come up so nervously that morning and cannoned into Edmund at the bottom. All the others were there with him waiting, and Lucy’s conscience smote her when she saw their anxious faces and realized how long she had forgotten them.
“It‘s all right,” she shouted. “Everything’s all right. The Magician‘s a brick.and I’ve seen him.Aslan.”
After that she went from them like the wind and out into the garden. Here the earth was shaking with the jumps, andhe air ringing with the shouts of the Monopods. Both were edoubled when they caught sight of her.
“Here she comes, here she comes,” they cried. “Threeheers for the little girl. Ah! She put it across the old gentleman roperly, she did.”